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Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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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