▲ 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
[+] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] reddig33@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 child) Still sounds gross. While the developer might have opted in to selling your processing power to scrape websites, I doubt the users of each extension opted in. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] 7eter@feddit.org 19 points 1 year ago (1 child) The popular Dark Reader is not affected by this as far as I know. Only this knock off for the edge browser. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT1XgBs25gRlg5e3nYCAff967WMtZZTO-TB3rR9zszaJpTpCVFg8j7FkBxnHb3tw3aHGjKBGSxYyLgV/pubhtml permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [+] MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zerush@lemmy.ml [S] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) I use the inbuild Dark Mode in Vivaldi (on/off with shortcut, wors even in intern pages and menus) and none of the extensions from the list, most extensions from the Store anyway are redundant in Vivaldi translation, reader mode, tabs, feeds, ad/tracker blocker..........) - permalink fedilink source parent
[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 child) Still sounds gross. While the developer might have opted in to selling your processing power to scrape websites, I doubt the users of each extension opted in. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[+] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 7eter@feddit.org 19 points 1 year ago (1 child) The popular Dark Reader is not affected by this as far as I know. Only this knock off for the edge browser. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT1XgBs25gRlg5e3nYCAff967WMtZZTO-TB3rR9zszaJpTpCVFg8j7FkBxnHb3tw3aHGjKBGSxYyLgV/pubhtml permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[+] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[+] MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml [S] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) I use the inbuild Dark Mode in Vivaldi (on/off with shortcut, wors even in intern pages and menus) and none of the extensions from the list, most extensions from the Store anyway are redundant in Vivaldi translation, reader mode, tabs, feeds, ad/tracker blocker..........) - permalink fedilink source parent