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JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware

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Re: JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware

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Post by teruakohatu »

Aurornis wrote: post #63
Animats wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's OK to inject ads, but not OK to remove them, under Google's current policies.

Several of the top Chrome extensions on their charts are ad blockers: https://chromewebstore.google.com/top-charts/popular?hl=en They have an API basically dedicated to this: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/d... I think you may have been confused about the Manifest V3 API changes, which were controversial because they didn't support every feature of the old API. The mainstream ad blockers a…

It is widely known that Manifest V3 reduces extensions ability to perform SoTA ad blocking. It limits heuristic based filtering, under a guise of privacy.

Re: JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware

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Post by hybirdss »

just went through all my github actions and pinned them to commit SHAs after reading this. same problem — if someone pushes to @main your CI blindly runs it. auto-update anything is basically handing someone a key to your house and hoping they stay nice forever

Re: JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware

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Post by username223 »

computerfriend wrote: post #10

Interesting that the author, Callum Locke, seems to be a real person with a real reputation to damage. Previously this would have been a trust signal to me, I figured real developers would be less likely to go rogue given the consequences.

Well, Callum Locke has certainly torched his reputation. Not “spreading Santorum” level… yet.

Re: JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware

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Post by bicx »

jansommer wrote: post #13

Guy talks about switching to the "Classic" version if > you just want a simple, open source, local-only JSON-formatting extension that won't receive updates. Wow that sounds like a tough choice. JSON formatting is moving at such a fast pase that I don't know if I should pay a JSON formatting SaaS a monthly subscription, or if I really can live without updates.

Going to have a chat with our JSON Engineers to see what our best move might be. It might be worth the adware if we can keep JSONing.

Re: JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware

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Post by caseyohara »

mirekrusin wrote: post #53
arikrahman wrote: post #47

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I what feature can even be added to the product that won't be immediately replicated in a fork?

Nobody knows what but everybody knows they won't be replicated. Chat with your json? Facebook but for jsons? Send json to blockchain? It's so bad that it's exciting, can't wait for an update.

It will certainly involve AI somehow.

Re: JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware

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Post by explodes »

ronsor wrote: post #23
fg137 wrote: post #15

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How did you "notice" a suspicious element in the inspector? Do you routinely look at the DOM?

> Do you routinely look at the DOM? You don't?

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Reading other comments, I noticed that this was a legitimate question.

Re: JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

fg137 wrote: post #66
jkl5xx wrote: post #52

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I did webdev for a long time, so yeah. If you want the story, I was looking into guix on asahi and ended up on https://www.asahi-guix.org/ which didn’t load anything, so I checked the page source and noticed the element.

Thanks. Not sure what's with the downvotes. That was a genuine question. (I used to do a lot of web development and probably know dev tools better than most people here. However I almost never look at the DOM of a webpage I don't own)

Text doesn't transmit tone well. FWIW I interpreted your comment as having somewhat accusatory intent, especially the scare-quoted "notice", for implying the author didn't just happen along his discovery and that he wasn't being fully truthful in his explanation of how he discovered this info.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

explodes wrote: post #78
ronsor wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do you routinely look at the DOM? You don't?

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Reading other comments, I noticed that this was a legitimate question.

Are you saying that [You don't?] is cross-examining/swipe, but [How did you "notice"] isn't?

I wouldn't highly object to either but if I had to pick one I'd definitely clear the former.

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