Just filed this Firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472948
Looks like the extension has already been removed from the store.
“Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history
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Re: “Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history
#132I've gotten annoyed enough to just copy the source from most of my extensions (located at `~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/`), remove the update stuff from the `metadata.json` and load them as developer extensions so they never update. It's easy enough to update them + audit the code when something breaks. The hardest part is downloading the new code (.crx) without installing it, I had to write javascript…
You can extract the .crx without Javascript using this webservice: http://crxextractor.com/ Used it a couple of times in the past, it is a good one.
All you need to do is remove the first 306 bytes to turn it into a normal zip file.
tail -c +307 in.crx > out.zip
Re: “Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox and Chromium are both open source. If you don't like the way it works, then work with the teams to build a better experience.
I can kind of understand that charge when it is levelled about people complaining about Quantum and doing nothing about it, but I already spend countless hours a week working on a replacement for an extension that died because of Quantum. How much more time can I reasonably be expected to donate? Just trying to find duplicates on the BMO could take ages. Complaining into the void on the internet takes much less time…
Maybe start pointing out how things are far too complex and work to reduce complexity instead?
Re: “Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history
#134The culprit in question tried to do the same thing to a Voice Search Chrome extension in the past[1].
Re: “Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history
#13510 months ago, I discovered and recommended stylish on a post titled: "Show HN: Make Medium Readable Again"[0]. I have only ever used it for a single site: medium.
It's times like these I wish I could go back and edit/update an old post with new info. I feel like I got stabbed in the back... which happens way too often in tech these days no matter how careful you are.
Re: “Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history
#136Google needs to take action here. From requiring re-confirming permissions every time a significant privacy policy change is made, or just by nuking SimilarWeb altogether from the web App Store.
I can already see the followup HN news: "Google attacking developers on Chrome Web Store and breaking free web!"
In case you weren't aware of how prescient your comment is:
Re: “Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history
#137Well, shit. I installed this extension a few months ago, because multiple people HN recommended it.
Tried it out, but found a different way to restyle and adjust sites to my tastes (uBlock and custom Greasemonkey) that I found easier. Then forgot about it.
And now it turns out this thing has been slurping my Internet history for months.
No downvotes, nobody calling them on it, just happy oblivious HN users that carelessly install random browser extensions and then recommend them to other people. Urgh.
Re: “Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history
#138As others have said, immediately switch to Stylus. While we're at it stop using Ghostery as well since they were bought by an ad company. Use Privacy Badger or a decent alternative (noscript + heavy/custom uBlock lists should work just fine)
Honestly, the only reason I had Stylish installed was because multiple people on HN recommended it. So you'll excuse me if I don't "immediately" switch to the next random recommendation, especially if it comes with the reason that others in this thread are recommending it too!
BTW your characterisation of Ghostery's relation to an "ad company" is incorrect. It's an odd enough situation that I'm not using it any longer but they didn't get "bought by an ad company". Unless something new happened to them, in which case, please provide a link.
Re: “Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history
#139It appears Firefox has already moved on this. Came home today and was warned that Stylish was an unsafe extension, and I can no longer find it listed as an available add-on.
Re: “Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah one thing Google doesn't do is collect info about what you do on the internet and sell it to other people. https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity More seriously: if Stylish concerns you, Chrome should too.
Google indeed doesn't sell info to other people. (It does collect it though.)
It collects it for the purpose of building a better advertising profile of you- so it can make more money from ads. It’s still using my data about me and making money off of it.