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Over 80 Chrome Extensions Found Selling Their Users Data - And It’s All Completely Legal (layerxsecurity.com)
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  • A network of 24 media extensions that are installed on 800,000 users and collected viewing data and demographic information on major streaming platforms such as Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, HBO, Apple TV, and others
  • 12 separate ad blockers with a combined install base of over 5.5 million users openly selling user data
  • Nearly 50 other extensions, with over 100,000 users in aggregate, that collected and resold users’ browsing data
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[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And then there is my company IT department wanting to forcibly uninstall anything that isn't chrome because "chrome is the only secure option". They literally made our company tools that are browser based just not work with anything that isn't chrome to curb people trying to use other browsers. :(

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

UA spoof

[–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's an extension for firefox based browsers that masquerades your browser as chrome.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

I haven't tried that but don't think it would work because the system isn't checking what browser is used and returning an error message, they have literally coded the web tools in such a way that when running in Firefox, it just doesn't ever respond. If you try doing the same action in Opera, it literally crashes the entire browser. If you try to use Edge, the tab crashes. I'm not convinced they've done this on purpose, I think they just cobbled stuff together and only bothered testing on Chrome and called it good when it stopped crashing for them.

[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tbf, the problem was extensions here. Which if they have those blocked as well this wouldn't be a problem.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol, they don't. We have some of the worst IT people... Most of our computers are still on Windows 10 and just haven't been getting updates because they didn't setup extended update support properly.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago

Time to look for a new jerb.