“Particle” Chrome Extension Sold to New Dev Who Immediately Turns It into Adware (bleepingcomputer.com)

this was really shady business imho, especially that this "announcement" by the original author was made AFTER the ownership transfer had already taken place. there's a big discussion on the original project's GitHub page for anyone who's interested https://github.com/ParticleCore/Particle/issues/528

Hmmm.... I'm gonna go back through all my extensions and remove the ones I don't use.