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Privacy@lemmy.ml · 6 days 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 · 6 days ago

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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“Cat Facts Unleashed” too… My heart is sinking and I am dying now…

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