Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots (arstechnica.com)
from Zerush@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 12 Jul 2025 18:47
https://lemmy.ml/post/33066506

Link to the list of extensions at the end of the article

#privacy

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CatZoomies@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 2025 21:38 collapse

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reddig33@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 2025 21:48 next collapse

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.

CatZoomies@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 2025 23:27 collapse

7eter@feddit.org on 12 Jul 2025 21:45 collapse

The popular Dark Reader is not affected by this as far as I know. Only this knock off for the edge browser. Source: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/…/pubhtml

CatZoomies@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 2025 23:06 collapse