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The danger with extension acquisitions is malicious buyers, who use their ability to run arbitrary code to steal credit card numbers or credentials, insert or r
by mkl 3y ago
The danger with extension acquisitions is malicious buyers, who use their ability to run arbitrary code to steal credit card numbers or credentials, insert or replace ads, run cryptocurrency mining, etc. For malicious purposes number of installations is the important thing, not how clonable the extension is.
- jl6 3y ago$10m could be worth it for a nation state actor targeting a specific high-value individual known to use the extension.
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoYou can do those in private windows, there's separate permission for those: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extensions-private-browsing https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extensions-private-brow... Miners need the least amount of permissions anyway.