8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
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Re: 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
#2Oh, a free of cost vpn extension that requires access to all sites and data is somehow spyware, color me surprised.
With those extensions the user's data and internet are the product, most if not all are also selling residential IP access for scrapers, bots, etc.
Good thing Google is protecting users by taking down such harmful extensions as ublock origin instead.
Re: 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
#3I treat extensions like they're all capable of privileged local code execution. My selection is very vetted and very small.
Re: 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
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Re: 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
#5Google needs to act on removing these extensions/doing more thorough code reviews. Reputability is everything, and they can be actually valuable (e.g. LastPass, my own extension Ward)
There has to be a better system. Maybe a public extension safety directory?
Re: 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
#6Oh, a free of cost vpn extension that requires access to all sites and data is somehow spyware, color me surprised. With those extensions the user's data and internet are the product, most if not all are also selling residential IP access for scrapers, bots, etc. Good thing Google is protecting users by taking down such harmful extensions as ublock origin instead.
ublock requires access to all sites and data. Maybe they are trustworthy but who really knows?
Re: 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
#7I treat extensions like they're all capable of privileged local code execution. My selection is very vetted and very small.
The only extensions I have installed are dark reader and ublock origin. Would be nice if I could disable auto updating for them somehow and run local pinned versions...
Re: 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
#8Google needs to act on removing these extensions/doing more thorough code reviews. Reputability is everything, and they can be actually valuable (e.g. LastPass, my own extension Ward) There has to be a better system. Maybe a public extension safety directory?
Do you think Google wants to have the extensions system, given that this is how people block ads?
Re: 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
#9Google needs to act on removing these extensions/doing more thorough code reviews. Reputability is everything, and they can be actually valuable (e.g. LastPass, my own extension Ward) There has to be a better system. Maybe a public extension safety directory?
Google is doing code review on extensions?
Re: 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
#10Is the use of WebAssembly going to make spotting these malicious extensions harder?