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wtfrmyinitials
1982 days ago
Every day the browser becomes less of a User-Agent and more of a Vendor-Agent
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SulfurHexaFluri
1982 days ago
Malicious browser extensions are a very serious problem though. The user has almost no way to know if their data is being stolen.
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im3w1l
1982 days ago
But they do. It's called installing reputable extensions and software. Anything non-reputable is stealing all your data with decent probability.
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canofbars
1980 days ago
What is reputable? So many once reputable extensions get sold to malware makers for huge sums of money so you not only have to find someone who will not add malware, but someone who will reject $1M purely on ethics.
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OpticalWindows
1982 days ago
It's malicious actors all of the way down /s
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