Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user data

Re:Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user... by SulfurHexaFluri on Thursday January 14, 2021 @07:28PM (#25785211)

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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Re:Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user... by im3w1l on Friday January 15, 2021 @01:37AM (#25787741)

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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Re:Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user... by canofbars on Saturday January 16, 2021 @10:41PM (#25807885)

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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Re:Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user... by OpticalWindows on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:53PM (#25787155)

It's malicious actors all of the way down /s

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