8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions

Re:8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" e... by notjonheyman on Monday December 15, 2025 @10:43PM (#46284519)

From my experience, Google does not do a thorough app review. Reviewers get maybe a few minutes to review and move on due to the volume of apps awaiting review.

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Re:8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" e... by Oarch on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:27PM (#46284776)

I imagine this would be a great use case for AI helping out?

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Re:8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" e... by free_bip on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:49PM (#46284898)

No way that could backfire... Prompt injection is a solved problem right?

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Re:8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" e... by automatedideas on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @01:16AM (#46285369)

“There’s too much human harmful code to review and too few human reviewers.”

“I know, let’s have an AI do all the work for us instead. Let’s take a coffee break.”

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Re:8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" e... by lodovic on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @02:01AM (#46285625)

I'm thinking of installing the extension in a sandbox and then use a local agent to have endless fake conversations with it

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