Comment by rawland

  > It must have been frustrating for him, as the plugin's
  > original developer, to be dragged through this crap.

Completely agree.

Then, this sets a precedent. It reminded me of Google injecting some binary code into Chromium [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724409]. However, we have a single person here. I can wholeheartedly imagine, that this can cause quite some stress. Also, it could have happened to many, I think...

Edit: I'm happy about the discussion here. At least, this won't happen again, anytime too soon.