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Browser extensions turn nearly 1M browsers into website-scraping bots

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Browser extensions turn nearly 1M browsers into website-scraping bots

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Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots
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    1 month ago

    I’m not knowledgeable enough on the subject to properly analyze, but many of these (if not all?) are open source on github.

    Is there no system / community in place to keep things Sufficiently honest?

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