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cm0002@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

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Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

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cm0002@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.world · 3 months ago
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Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?
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    3 months ago

    Yea those are well known. But I see people recommending sketchy extensions for small things.

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