Zerush@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 months agoBrowser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping botsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up1160arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: firefox@lemmy.worldfirefox@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1156arrow-down1external-linkBrowser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping botsarstechnica.comZerush@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 months agomessage-square21linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: firefox@lemmy.worldfirefox@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.zip
minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down3·10 months agoStill 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.
minus-squareCatZoomies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·edit-24 days agodeleted by creator
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.
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