Comment on Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data
Armand1@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve gone through the list a bit and out of the most popular ones that spied on you, most were adblocks, coupon finders or AI Chatbots.
Some notable extensions:
- Stylish. A theming extension, I used to use this back in the day!
- Smarty. Some sort of coupon code thing like Honey
- Video Ad Blocker Plus for YouTube™
- Video Downloader PLUS
- Karma - Another coupon thing
- Audio editor online Audacity. Some sort of web-based Audacity clone?
- GIMP online - Same sort of thing as above with GIMP
- Ground News Bias Checker - To be fair it probably makes sense this one sends the URL you are visiting, as it’s purpose is to look up the bias of the publication you are looking at.
Worth a read regardless.
x00z@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Stylish is long known and the opensource Stylus fork is suggested. github.com/openstyles/stylus