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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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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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    You can check if you have an affected extension installed by going to the mellowtel settings page, where you can configure mellowtel if its installed (or get a message that you don’t run mellowtel): https://www.mellow.tel/user-control

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