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Chrome Extensions, Android and iOS Apps Caught Collecting Browsing Data (bleepingcomputer.com)
Catalin Cimpanu, writing for Bleeping Computer: An investigation by AdGuard has revealed a common link between several Chrome and Firefox extensions and Android and iOS apps that were caught collecting highly personal user data through various shady tactics. The common link between all extensions and mobile apps is a company named Big Star Labs. AdGuard estimates these apps had been installed on around 11 million devices.
stay with legit developers, folks. one thing i was dreading when firefox went webex was the deluge of bogus addons in the chrome store would make it into firefox's ecosystem. sure mozilla had a few, but fuck, man. chrome's extension 'store' is absolutely polluted with them.. and guess what? now, amo is getting invaded by them, too.
Who would have imagined that a browser or a mobile OS created by a company which generates revenue via selling gathered data would gather data on users ?
Anyone with a reasonable amount of intelligence, that's who.
What's next, a Slashdot article about how a hot stove burns your hand when you grab it ?
666 5th avenue
1. Firefox in a VM on VPN
2. TOR browser in a VM (Firefox IRL)
3. TOR browser on an encrypted volume
4. Public library with a fake ID
5. Don't browse
Or copying the names of the apps in the summary?
This is more or less a neat summation of the state of the internet, and of smart devices ... the entire thing is being monetized by crooks and assholes.
There's little point in differentiating between the types of crooks and assholes, the shady players and the blue-chip tech companies .. they're all crooks and assholes.
They all want to turn your information into marketing data to make money off. They don't much care for your privacy, but they guard their own mightily and prejudicially.
I've said it before .. but every company who deals in your private information without making it clear of exactly what they do .. every employee, their parents, their children, their grandchildren .. doxx the living shit out of them.
Appropriate every bit of information about then, publish it, distribute it. Take away every place they have to hide. Banking, private emails, where their kids go to school .. all of it.
These people make money off selling out private information. So let's strip them of their privacy, lay them bare, and the consequences be damned.
Because that's exactly what they're doing to us.
Like to do their ads. Reduce the amount of ad company products used.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Remember them? Scanned your PC for nasty Adware? Their owner sold them to an Ad company. I found out when I noticed Adaware doing some very strange shit on my PC.
https://zeldauniverse.net/forums/Thread/146950-Warning-about-Ad-Aware-it-s-bought-by-a-mal-ware-company-and-now-it-hijacks-bros/
https://www.scmagazine.com/lavasofts-new-owners-operated-misleading-websites/article/559189/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/11/lavasoft_has_new_owners/
http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/what_does_the_future_hold_for_ad_aware.html
To the original owner of AdAware who built our trust: FUCK YOU CUNT!
I found it interesting that this Big Star Labs has no real physical address or point of origin. Even more troubling is both Google and Apple seem OK with this as well as Mozilla you know the company so concerned about our privacy.
Chrome Extensions, Android and iOS Apps Caught Collecting Browsing Data
The headline is just nonsense. If Adguard wasn't collecting browsing data, how would they uncover this? The important thing, as in the summary, is the common link they uncovered.
Yes we can! (Fat chance of winning though.)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Putting "security" software atop Android is akin to spraying Glade after a crap. You get nothing more than perfumed crap. Android is, was, and forever shall be a sinkhole for privacy.