This is fucked up. Dark Reader?
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Who in the hell would use a volume booster extension? Just turn your volume up? Wut.
This kind of extension is used when your device's output sucks and "cranking it to 140%" is the only way to make it audible (usually mangling the quality). Possibly used by hard-of-hearing users too. Or maybe they're stuck on monitor speakers and "just pay $15 for cheapo cans" isn't an option, and the monitor's OSD controls are clunky and awful (they always are).
I've used "volume booster" features in apps before when listening to badly mixed podcasts/audiobooks, because turning up the system volume on a phone makes other apps too loud. I could see a desktop situation that mirrors this for someone, a setting in FF is faster/easier than the windows volume mixer.
You can check if you have an affected extension installed by going to the mellowtel settings page, where you can configure mellowtel if its installed (or get a message that you don't run mellowtel): https://www.mellow.tel/user-control
This is why I cringe when people recommend random ass addons to do random shit. Better to just literally stick to ublock origin and maybe 1 other. I really don't trust most extensions.
Ublock origin, noscript and canvas anti fingerprinting. Works great
Besides random extensions, I also recommend checking when the last update was if possible.
I used to use the KDE Plasma Integration extension but have since ditched it when I found out the last update was in 2024, a little over a year ago now. Unless they update it, I'mma treat that 1 year old extension like a 10 year old extension in terms of security.
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