Well spotted. https://securityonline.info/malicious-vscode-extensions-caught-mining-crypto-with-xmrig/ This news article has a link to this listing: https://app.extensiontotal.com/report/prettierteam.prettier
Notably, the developer name is different.
In case someone stumbles upon this now, Prettier got caught running a crypto miner on users' computers: https://programming.dev/post/28214590
It's still around, Git compatible and all. I have fond memories using it with svn on a small startup as our development hub back in the day.
What about him? The Wikipedia page seems pretty normal at first glance.
Yo, @drspod@lemmy.ml, check the article again. Prettier, a very popular extension, heads the list now:
Prettier — Code for VSCode (by prettier) – 955K Installs
Discord Rich Presence for VS Code (by Mark H) – 189K Installs
Rojo — Roblox Studio Sync (by evaera) – 117K Installs
Solidity Compiler (by VSCode Developer) – 1.3K Installs
Claude AI (by Mark H)
Golang Compiler (by Mark H)
ChatGPT Agent for VSCode (by Mark H)
HTML Obfuscator (by Mark H)
Python Obfuscator for VSCode (by Mark H)
Rust Compiler for VSCode (by Mark H)Because in that very particular instance, it goes towards their business model. It helps them sell more games.
Works on Firefox with uBO for me. Maybe javascript configurations?
Something with a Flat structure, that acts as a hub for these projects. We could call it Flathub! ;)
Oh right, companies don't divest divisions. Never happened in the history of mankind.