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by thelittleone 281 days ago
Wow hadn't even considered this... so say I have a members only section of my site where I share high value content, one of the members browses using Comet, and that scrapes the private content and sends to perplexity?
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Not sure if its still an issue, but companies were buying popular web extensions, then auto updating malware/spyware into them. I haven't heard much about this in a while, but I think chrome still forces auto updates for extensions, so I would expect this to be the biggest vector for scraping walled data now.
Any user could manually download your data anyways. Access is access.
And a browser can do it automated and behind user’s back.
This also happens with covert botnets running secretly on user machines.