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Jul 20 2019 12:27am

Very long article, but read it anyway.


My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/dataspii-inside-the-debacle-that-dished-private-data-from-apple-tesla-blue-origin-and-4m-people/



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When we use browsers to make medical appointments, share tax returns with accountants, or access corporate intranets, we usually trust that the pages we access will remain private. DataSpii, a newly documented privacy issue in which millions of people’s browsing histories have been collected and exposed, shows just how much about us is revealed when that assumption is turned on its head.

DataSpii begins with browser extensions—available mostly for Chrome but in more limited cases for Firefox as well—that, by Google's account, had as many as 4.1 million users. These extensions collected the URLs, webpage titles, and in some cases the embedded hyperlinks of every page that the browser user visited. Most of these collected Web histories were then published by a fee-based service called Nacho Analytics, which markets itself as “God mode for the Internet” and uses the tag line “See Anyone’s Analytics Account.”




tl;dr version... stop using browser extensions.
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Jul 20 2019 04:24am
sry my ad blocker staying right where it is, also not using chrome/ff so lawls.
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Jul 20 2019 10:51am
what kind of retarded shit is this thread??
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Jul 20 2019 11:53am
Quote (iaapvper @ Jul 20 2019 12:51pm)
what kind of retarded shit is this thread??




Well, no wonder you have 40%.
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