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In case someone stumbles upon this now, Prettier got caught running a crypto miner on users' computers: https://programming.dev/post/28214590
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.