How to monetize and secure your browser plugin/extension?

Question

Google Chrome

It's no secret that the plug-in market for modern browsers is gaining momentum. This is confirmed by the official Chrome extension store. But enthusiasm alone will not get you far.
So, I asked myself two questions, the answers to which are more obvious for other platforms (social networks, mobile applications).
1) how to monetize your plugin? Ad block (contextual advertising) - this is understandable. What else?
2) how to protect your plugin? Only code obfuscation? But it doesn't always help.

Answer 1

A plugin is a function. Let's assume that this is fancy statistics of domains and IP addresses, with a country based on the answer of the penultimate node, owners, contacts and other things, for example, TIC and PageRank; everything is highlighted with ruffles and a wild overdose of information per pixel of the place, the user orgasms. The plugin receives statistics from your server. This is how you can enter some kind of authentication and a paid subscription.
Well, it depends on each case. Nobody canceled donations either.

Answer 2

Are extensions in js? It is difficult to protect it, if necessary, they will still unpack the obfuscated code. With monetization, you can act like social games / mobile applications / web services - two types of access, demo, free and paid.

Answer 3

Dinosaur bones will start to surface now, such an old topic)) Donations - in 99% of the cases, they simply do not work when monetizing extensions. Do you like getting 10-20 bucks a month (at best) when your extension has an audience of 40-60k users? I'm sure no. But with advertising, the situation is completely different, because the monetization of a browser extension is not an intricate process, in which the main thing is to choose the right software. You can hit max.monetizus on Skype, we'll talk in detail.