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7/10/2025, 5:46:10 AM
they are largely a scam altough extension does what it promises
they are however secretly web scrapers for larger AI
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/browser-extensions-turn-nearly-1-million-browsers-into-website-scraping-bots/
Tuckner said in an email Wednesday that the most recent status of the affected extensions is:
- Of 45 known Chrome extensions, 12 are now inactive. Some of the extensions were removed for malware explicitly. Others have removed the library which was a scraper.
- Of 129 Edge extensions incorporating the scrape library, eight are now inactive.
- Of 71 affected Firefox extensions, two are now inactive.
Some of the inactive extensions were removed for malware explicitly.
Others have removed the library in more recent updates. A complete list of extensions found by Tuckner is here.
they are however secretly web scrapers for larger AI
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/browser-extensions-turn-nearly-1-million-browsers-into-website-scraping-bots/
Tuckner said in an email Wednesday that the most recent status of the affected extensions is:
- Of 45 known Chrome extensions, 12 are now inactive. Some of the extensions were removed for malware explicitly. Others have removed the library which was a scraper.
- Of 129 Edge extensions incorporating the scrape library, eight are now inactive.
- Of 71 affected Firefox extensions, two are now inactive.
Some of the inactive extensions were removed for malware explicitly.
Others have removed the library in more recent updates. A complete list of extensions found by Tuckner is here.
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