@Zerush@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml • 1 month agoBrowser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping botsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comfirefox@lemmy.worldfirefox@lemmy.mlfirefox@fedia.iotechnology@lemmy.zip
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minus-squareDuskyRolinkfedilink2•1 month agoI used Youtube unhook in the past but before the AI craze so I’m probably good. I know a lot of people use Dark Reader so that’s gotta hurt. Other than that I think I’m safe.
minus-square@7eter@feddit.orglinkfedilink16•edit-21 month agoThe popular Dark Reader is not affected by this. Only this knock off for the edge browser. Source
minus-square@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoI see Dark Reader for Edge but not Firefox. Are they the same extension?
minus-squareLEM 1689linkfedilinkEnglish10•1 month agoThis is from Mozilla Dark Reader doesn’t show ads and doesn’t send user’s data anywhere. It is fully open-source https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/android/addon/darkreader/
minus-square@quantumcrop@lemmy.todaylinkfedilink4•edit-21 month agoThey seem to all link back to the same github page. https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader Edit: not the same one as on the list
I used Youtube unhook in the past but before the AI craze so I’m probably good.
I know a lot of people use Dark Reader so that’s gotta hurt.
Other than that I think I’m safe.
The popular Dark Reader is not affected by this.
Only this knock off for the edge browser. Source
I see Dark Reader for Edge but not Firefox. Are they the same extension?
This is from Mozilla
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/android/addon/darkreader/
They seem to all link back to the same github page.
https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader
Edit: not the same one as on the list