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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

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[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Definitely read the original SecureAnnex article as well. The behavior of this software and the people behind it are damning.

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