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Customer feedback and issue tracker repository for Visual Studio Marketplace
12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 5 stories, 7 comments · first 2025-01-14 · latest 2026-01-09
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The Concerning Amount of Malware on the VS Code Marketplacestory by shadow-ninja · 2026-01-09 · 3 comments
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and yet, there are many malware extensions per day that get through: https://github.com/microsoft/vsmarketplace/blob/main/Removed...
comment by Quarrel · 2025-07-15 · in Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft -
…Also, > obfuscated code which spawns child processes to download data for unnecessary reasons https://github.com/microsoft/vsmarketplace/issues/1168#issue... No one in the right mind would expect a theme to do this. Its only purpose is to…
comment by soraminazuki · 2025-03-16 · in Microsoft apologizes for removing VSCode Material Theme extension -
…to the comment with the new information (apparently it is not possible to keep the URL fragment): https://github.com/microsoft/vsmarketplace/issues/1168#issue... The gist of it: > The publisher account for Material Theme and Material Theme…
comment by RagingCactus · 2025-03-12 · in VS Code Material Theme Was Mistakenly Flagged as Malicious -
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VS Code Material Theme Was Mistakenly Flagged as Maliciousstory by RagingCactus · 2025-03-12 · 2 comments
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Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43178831 Dev's complaint: https://github.com/microsoft/vsmarketplace/issues/1173 Apparently that extension had 5M installs prior to being removed.[0] It was only just released in 2021,…
comment by mubou · 2025-03-09 · in Material Theme silently reinstated after prior removal -
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Material Theme silently reinstated after prior removalstory by aszx87410 · 2025-03-09 · 1 comment
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…released their 'detailed announcement' - it's just a one-sentence fragment in a Markdown file: https://github.com/microsoft/vsmarketplace/blob/main/Removed... I'm increasingly suspecting there was nothing actually wrong with the extension,…
comment by withinrafael · 2025-02-27 · in Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace -
> Expect an announcement here with more details soon https://github.com/microsoft/vsmarketplace/ Hi Isidor, excited for this! At Open VSX, we'd love to take a look and potentially flag the extension as malicious on our side as well. Are…
comment by filiptronicek · 2025-02-26 · in Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace -
…only about potential malicious intent. Expect an announcement here with more details soon https://github.com/microsoft/vsmarketplace/ As a reminder, the VS Marketplace continuously invests in security. And more about extension runtime…
comment by isidorn · 2025-02-26 · in Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace -
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VSCode Marketplace Web Pages No Longer Allow Direct VSIX Downloadsstory by elashri · 2025-02-04 · 18 comments
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PlatformIO IDE extension was removed from VS Marketplacestory by TrailMixRaisin · 2025-01-14 · 4 comments