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comment by guybrush
guybrush  ·  3291 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Chrome Extensions – AKA Total Absence of Privacy

Wow that's actually quite scary, particularly being able to read security tokens. Does anyone know if this is specific to Chrome or does the same apply to Firefox/Edge extensions? I don't use Chrome any more as it seemed to becoming slower and slower over the last few years.





iza  ·  3290 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Firefox extensions are all manually reviewed by Mozilla so they are generally safer. Don't know about edge.

edit: Though the article does mention they found the same thing in at least one Firefox addon.