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Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw... by unbeli on Sunday January 19, 2014 @06:03AM (#7084108)
What exactly are you trying to achieve with that, if I may ask?
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Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw... by dictum on Sunday January 19, 2014 @07:50AM (#7084278)
What exactly are companies trying to achieve with very precise, self-healing tracking methods?
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Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw... by unbeli on Sunday January 19, 2014 @08:08AM (#7084311)
Serve you more relevant ads? I don't really know. Which companies do you mean anyway? And what are these self-healing tracking methods?
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Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw... by nikcub on Sunday January 19, 2014 @11:43AM (#7084901)
security and privacy - separate rings of trust for different websites. to me the idea of trusting every website on the internet with all of your cookies, extensions and plugins is crazy.
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