295 spam extensions from probably the same developer is hardly newsworthy. Just look at the list rather than just reading the headline.
With that said after a fairly simple extension I had installed for many months upgraded itself automatically to replace links with "eco links" that supposedly helped the environment I stopped installing extensions that weren't ublock or from google themselves. I'm much more willing to install a random app on my windows machine than I am a random chrome extension, thats just how untrustworthy I find the chrome store to be.
With that said after a fairly simple extension I had installed for many months upgraded itself automatically to replace links with "eco links" that supposedly helped the environment I stopped installing extensions that weren't ublock or from google themselves. I'm much more willing to install a random app on my windows machine than I am a random chrome extension, thats just how untrustworthy I find the chrome store to be.