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That extension would be banned in minutes because that's illegal.

by ronsor 5y ago

smoldesu 5y ago
How exactly do you ban a browser extension? How do you consider legitimate traffic illegal?
- gruez 5y ago
  >How exactly do you ban a browser extension? browser vendors can blacklist it. >How do you consider legitimate traffic illegal? It's fairly obvious that sending traffic for the sake of generating traffic isn't "legitimate" by any means. Your excuse is flimsier as websites that sell ddos services as "stress testing" services.
  - johnisgood 5y ago
    > browser vendors can blacklist it. How would they do that? They can remove them from their list of extensions, but I can just download it from elsewhere and add it manually, right?
    - megous 5y ago
      If you hadn't noticed, extensions have to be signed by the browser vendor, so that you can run them. A few people who re-compile their Firefox or Chromium to get rid of that requirement will not make a great DDoS botnet.
      - johnisgood 5y ago
        Well, I have not noticed, because last time I wrote a Chrome extension, I just had the .js files in a directory and I could easily add it to Chrome with developer mode on. I imagine it would be possible with this extension as well. Things may have changed since then, I have not checked.
        megous 5y ago
        Right, similar option to load add-on temporarily is in Firefox. The add-on will not persist across restarts, though.
    - jeroenhd 5y ago
      Installing AdNausiam into Chrome is remarkably difficult. You need developer mode on, repackage the addon manually and then dismiss the dev mode popup every time you start the browser. In other browsers you need your addons to be signed. Firefox implemented this because of the terrible malware that got installed with adware installers. With administrator access, they kept changing every setting Firefox added to get the addon to load, so they made the entire loading system dependent on signatures. Luckily, adware developers aren't smart enough to load code into the signed binaries to work around this limitation. You could do it, but it's more of a hassle than you'd expect.

That extension would be banned in minutes because that's illegal.

by ronsor 5y ago

That extension would be banned in minutes because that's illegal.

smoldesu 5y ago

How exactly do you ban a browser extension? How do you consider legitimate traffic illegal?

gruez 5y ago
>How exactly do you ban a browser extension? browser vendors can blacklist it. >How do you consider legitimate traffic illegal? It's fairly obvious that sending traffic for the sake of generating traffic isn't "legitimate" by any means. Your excuse is flimsier as websites that sell ddos services as "stress testing" services.
- johnisgood 5y ago
  > browser vendors can blacklist it. How would they do that? They can remove them from their list of extensions, but I can just download it from elsewhere and add it manually, right?
  - megous 5y ago
    If you hadn't noticed, extensions have to be signed by the browser vendor, so that you can run them. A few people who re-compile their Firefox or Chromium to get rid of that requirement will not make a great DDoS botnet.
    - johnisgood 5y ago
      Well, I have not noticed, because last time I wrote a Chrome extension, I just had the .js files in a directory and I could easily add it to Chrome with developer mode on. I imagine it would be possible with this extension as well. Things may have changed since then, I have not checked.
      - megous 5y ago
        Right, similar option to load add-on temporarily is in Firefox. The add-on will not persist across restarts, though.
  - jeroenhd 5y ago
    Installing AdNausiam into Chrome is remarkably difficult. You need developer mode on, repackage the addon manually and then dismiss the dev mode popup every time you start the browser. In other browsers you need your addons to be signed. Firefox implemented this because of the terrible malware that got installed with adware installers. With administrator access, they kept changing every setting Firefox added to get the addon to load, so they made the entire loading system dependent on signatures. Luckily, adware developers aren't smart enough to load code into the signed binaries to work around this limitation. You could do it, but it's more of a hassle than you'd expect.