▲ 146 ▼ Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots (arstechnica.com) submitted 1 year ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml 19 comments fedilink hide all child comments Link to the list of extensions at the end of the article
[–] DuskyRo@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (2 children) I used Youtube unhook in the past but before the AI craze so I'm probably good. I know a lot of people use Dark Reader so that's gotta hurt. Other than that I think I'm safe. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] 7eter@feddit.org 14 points 1 year ago* The popular Dark Reader is not affected by this. Only this knock off for the edge browser. Source permalink fedilink source parent [–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children) I see Dark Reader for Edge but not Firefox. Are they the same extension? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago This is from Mozilla Dark Reader doesn't show ads and doesn't send user's data anywhere. It is fully open-source https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/android/addon/darkreader/ permalink fedilink source parent [–] quantumcrop@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) They seem to all link back to the same github page. https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader Edit: not the same one as on the list permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 7eter@feddit.org 14 points 1 year ago* The popular Dark Reader is not affected by this. Only this knock off for the edge browser. Source permalink fedilink source parent
[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children) I see Dark Reader for Edge but not Firefox. Are they the same extension? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago This is from Mozilla Dark Reader doesn't show ads and doesn't send user's data anywhere. It is fully open-source https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/android/addon/darkreader/ permalink fedilink source parent [–] quantumcrop@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) They seem to all link back to the same github page. https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader Edit: not the same one as on the list permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago This is from Mozilla Dark Reader doesn't show ads and doesn't send user's data anywhere. It is fully open-source https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/android/addon/darkreader/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] quantumcrop@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) They seem to all link back to the same github page. https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader Edit: not the same one as on the list permalink fedilink source parent