Zerush@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoBrowser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping botsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1155file-textcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.sefirefox@lemmy.worldfirefox@lemmy.mlnews@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showtechnology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1155external-linkBrowser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping botsarstechnica.comZerush@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.sefirefox@lemmy.worldfirefox@lemmy.mlnews@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showtechnology@lemmy.zip
minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·11 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.
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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