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Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub [B] to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah the link to affected extensions (245 across 3 platforms)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT1XgBs25gRlg5e3nYCAff967WMtZZTO-TB3rR9zszaJpTpCVFg8j7FkBxnHb3tw3aHGjKBGSxYyLgV/pubhtml

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