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by qcontinuum1 8mo ago
Thank you. We are very glad to see the discussion that the report has sparked and and also glad to see the feedback on it. It means a lot to us. > 1- how large your team is? and how long this research took? it is very thorough and knowin
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by qcontinuum1 8mo ago
It is a noble idea to have a community driven effort in security research. We are sceptical that would work. The same way security researchers will read this thread in future bad actors (e.g. Similarweb) can read as well. Any tool that woul
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by qcontinuum1 8mo ago
> So they already have a good bootstrapped amount & I feel as if qcontinuum is interested they can maybe implement the idea? We might to it once. That requires non-trivial engineering effort and resources and we are at the moment sho
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by qcontinuum1 8mo ago
15 years ago was probably this type of business in its very early stage. There is little that can be done about "selling" extensions. Chrome Web Store should have tighter checks and scans to minimize this type of data exfiltration
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by qcontinuum1 8mo ago
We beg to differ. Consider for example "BlockSite Block Websites and Stay Focused" why would you need to send browsing data to remote server if your job is only to block selected domains?
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by qcontinuum1 8mo ago
We were hoping to see that as well. There might be v2 of this research ;)
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by qcontinuum1 8mo ago
Without any doubt the research could continue on this. We had many opportunities to make the scan even wider and almost certainly we would uncover more extensions. The number of leaking extensions should not be taken as definite. There are
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Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data(qcontinuum.substack.com)
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