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Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't (vitonsky.net)

submitted 2 years ago by vitonsky@programming.dev to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] magmaus3@szmer.info 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can open/extract extensions (at least Firefox ones) as zip files, they'll contain the code and assets used by the extension.

[–] FuryMaker@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

They average person won't know what they're looking at.