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Privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 year 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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Privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

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Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?

Link to the list of extensions at the end of the article

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That is not THE Dark Reader! Only this knock off for the edge browser is affected.
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  Oh wow thanks for letting me know!

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