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Re:It is easy to expose users' secret web habits, say resear... by craigmi on Monday July 31, 2017 @08:16AM (#14891207)
i had to dns sinkhole requests to pixel.intenta.io that a browser extension was creating, every site site I visited was sent along in an ajax request to this domain.

Couldn't isolate what extension it was.

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Re:It is easy to expose users' secret web habits, say resear... by tyingq on Monday July 31, 2017 @08:25AM (#14891257)
Someone else noticed the "page refresh" chrome extension making requests to that domain: https://frenchcoding.com/2015/11/12/faites-attention-aux-ext...
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Re:It is easy to expose users' secret web habits, say resear... by anc84 on Monday July 31, 2017 @08:22AM (#14891241)
> Couldn't isolate what extension it was.

How not? Disabling them in a bisecting way should be a couple of minutes.

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