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Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots (arstechnica.com)
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Link to the list of extensions at the end of the article

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[–] Beryl@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

It's disheartening seeing screen readers on this list. That seems predatory.

[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The list;

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT1XgBs25gRlg5e3nYCAff967WMtZZTO-TB3rR9zszaJpTpCVFg8j7FkBxnHb3tw3aHGjKBGSxYyLgV/pubhtml

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'll save everybody a click because it's what we all want to know. "Dog Facts Unlimited" extension is on the list.

[–] Pirate@feddit.org 16 points 1 year ago

My disappointment is immesurable and my day is ruined.

[–] Stewbs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Cat Facts Unleashed" too.... My heart is sinking and I am dying now....

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dark Reader is on the list :(

[–] 7eter@feddit.org 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is not THE Dark Reader! Only this knock off for the edge browser is affected.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

Oh wow thanks for letting me know!

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 15 points 1 year ago

Damn now how am I gonna live without "Change my cursor to Sims 4"?

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Definitely read the original SecureAnnex article as well. The behavior of this software and the people behind it are damning.

[–] DuskyRo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used Youtube unhook in the past but before the AI craze so I'm probably good.

I know a lot of people use Dark Reader so that's gotta hurt.

Other than that I think I'm safe.

[–] 7eter@feddit.org 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The popular Dark Reader is not affected by this.

Only this knock off for the edge browser. Source

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see Dark Reader for Edge but not Firefox. Are they the same extension?

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

This is from Mozilla

Dark Reader doesn't show ads and doesn't send user's data anywhere. It is fully open-source https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/android/addon/darkreader/

[–] quantumcrop@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They seem to all link back to the same github page.

https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader

Edit: not the same one as on the list