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> the market value of the extension is the value of "monetizing" it by stuffing ads, or worse, monitoring/tracking/exfiltration, into the extension Of even wor
by hanniabu 7y ago
> the market value of the extension is the value of "monetizing" it by stuffing ads, or worse, monitoring/tracking/exfiltration, into the extension
Of even worse, inserting malicious code such as a keylogger.
- cameronbrown 7y agoEven worse! A key-logger masquerading as a product! /s cough Grammarly https://techbeacon.com/security/grammarly-leaks-everything-youve-ever-typed-service-everything https://techbeacon.com/security/grammarly-leaks-everything-y...
- propogandist 7y agoThis isn't a secret by any means. Even Google Chrome's built in Spell Checker is constantly sending data back to Google and functions as a keylogger.
- Thorrez 7y agoDo you mean the enhanced spell checker which is off by default? The regular spell checker is done locally. https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html
- Semaphor 7y agoLanguageTool Plus [0] is an open source (optionally self hosted) replacement for Grammarly (a paid version is available but the free one already finds more mistakes than the free version of Grammarly did for me). Available for FF and that google browser ;) [0]: https://languagetoolplus.com/ https://languagetoolplus.com/
- geofft 7y agoYup (I think I'm loosely counting that as exfiltration, because you can monetize an all-sites extension real effectively if you exfiltrate the browser cookies from online banking websites.... keyloggers only get you so far if they have 2FA, but a logged-in browser session is valuable.)
- modzu 7y agoaka microsoft windows/office