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Title: Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots
Post by: rcjordan on July 09, 2025, 08:59:42 PM

- Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/browser-extensions-turn-nearly-1-million-browsers-into-website-scraping-bots/

Complete List Here:

Extensions using Mellowtel - Google Drive

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT1XgBs25gRlg5e3nYCAff967WMtZZTO-TB3rR9zszaJpTpCVFg8j7FkBxnHb3tw3aHGjKBGSxYyLgV/pubhtml

Title: Re: Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots
Post by: ergophobe on July 10, 2025, 10:21:19 PM

Quite a few seem targeted at developers (JSON formatting, etc).

None I recognize, but some that sound like the sort of thing I might look for now and then

Title: Re: Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots
Post by: rcjordan on July 10, 2025, 11:48:21 PM

IIRC, the Bsky image downloader seemed popular among the users.

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