3w ago

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

3 comments

This is fucked up. Dark Reader?
- The firefox list is pretty much entirely overly specific youtube tweaks (that you should be using uBlock or a more fully featured Youtube extension for), "games in sidebar", and custom cursors. Bonzi buddy and toolbars, anyone?
  Seriously, an NES emulator? As a browser addon? That needs permission to access "your data on all websites"?
You can check if you have an affected extension installed by going to the mellowtel settings page, where you can configure mellowtel if its installed (or get a message that you don't run mellowtel): https://www.mellow.tel/user-control