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jujet84Sat Aug-18-18 11:53 AM
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"Info Update on Firefox"


          

Mozilla removed today 23 Firefox add-ons that snooped on users and sent data to remote servers, a Mozilla engineer has told Bleeping Computer today.

The list of blocked add-ons includes "Web Security," a security-centric Firefox add-on with over 220,000 users, which was at the center of a controversy this week after it was caught sending users' browsing histories to a server located in Germany.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mozilla-removes-23-firefox-add-ons-that-snooped-on-users/

  

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GreyFalconSat Aug-18-18 01:05 PM
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Just goes to show you big tech can't be trusted with anything. I'm afraid there is a culture in those companies that view us as ants.

  

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TtechSat Aug-18-18 01:22 PM
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Interesting. I wish Google would do something similar with the multitudes of junk extensions that infect Chrome. I always look at Chrome Extensions when I'm working on a customer's computer and remove any that look suspicious.

Behind every good computer... is a jumble of wires 'n stuff.

  

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jbmcmillanSun Aug-19-18 06:34 AM
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The first thing I always hear is I don't know where that came from when I ask if that's something they use.

  

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therubeMon Aug-20-18 03:48 PM
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"Mozilla & Security, Heh."
https://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=25110

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