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Re:Button Stealer by ivanjermakov on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @07:18AM (#41044802)
1. Wait for an extension to become popular

2. Sell it to a company with malicious intentions

3. Get ad/spy/malware in your browser

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Re:Button Stealer by geek_at on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @07:21AM (#41044824)
that happened to me. I installed a plugin that would parse all pages for email addresses and store them for later reference. A few months later i started to see strange ads on pages that shouldn't have ads.
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