[nihonium]

I don't understand how can people trust a random app or extension just to have a little convinience. When it comes to big tech people are very privacy conscious. But it's not always big tech may have privacy leaks or would sell your data directly to data brokers most of the time, it's small apps like this.

I'm not saying developer is doing that, but they have power to do so. This app sends every video you're watching to their api, https://sponsor.ajay.app/api/ , and they can do whatever they want with this data. When small apps like this becames popular, they start receiving offers from data brokers/malware business and sometimes developers sell the data or the whole app without even knowing that the data will be used for bad purposes.

[dc3k]

> But it's not always big tech may have privacy leaks or would sell your data directly to data brokers most of the time, it's small apps like this.

Do you have any data to back this up

[nihonium]

If you're following HN regularly, I'm sure you'd see many issues especially for sold Chrome extensions. Really need data? Maybe check these:

[1]https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

[2]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/datas...

[3]https://dataspii.com/