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Re:Cluster of 295 Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google ... by wjsetzer on Thursday August 06, 2020 @08:43PM (#24076876)
Even that's too generous. It's got to be just going to a socket somewhere that redirects to `/dev/null`
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Re:Cluster of 295 Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google ... by julietteeb on Thursday August 06, 2020 @09:33PM (#24077133)
They probably use https://devnull-as-a-service.com/
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Re:Cluster of 295 Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google ... by kn0where on Thursday August 06, 2020 @08:46PM (#24076888)
I figured it sent a POST request to example.org
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Re:Cluster of 295 Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google ... by grawprog on Thursday August 06, 2020 @09:22PM (#24077075)
You're a google employee aren't you?? Come on you can admit it.
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