Clean Master
WeTab
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Those are the extensions mentioned in the article, but they also say there were others, but decided not to name those because CERTAINLY NO ONE WOULD POSSIBLY WANT TO KNOW WHICH EXTENSIONS MIGHT BE AFFECTING THEM, RIGHT?! NO SIR, THATS NOT IMPORTANT INFORMATION AT ALL!
Oh, huh, sucks for normie morons I guess.
This message was brought to you by entirely unprompted and uncompensated shilling for Waterfox
Either a browser is bad because it doesn’t allow extensions… Or it bad because it does and lets users install insecure stuff… Or it’s bad because it locks the extensions down so much you can’t do anything useful with them.
Which type of bad are you shilling for?
Uh, genuinely no clue what you’re talking about.
I just know that I can configure Waterfox to be both private/secure, and functional, fairly easily, and with most other browsers, that’s quite difficult, largely due to them being fundamentally controlled by giant corporations who have being a datamonger as a very significant element of their overall business model, who very much want you to watch the ads.
And… because its based on / is a fork of Firefox… it was not vulnerable to or affected by this sleeper malware.
Even if that’s not directly a result of some kind of software design/engineering paradigm type difference, and is just a kind of security through obscurity/non-popularity… thats still a very valid approach to using a computer system privately and securely.
Why can’t Firefox be effected by this?
Does chrome not ask about plugins requesting new permissions or something?
Because ShadyPanda published a malicious extension for Edge and Chrome.
Not for Firefox based browsers.
… You… can’t install an Edge or Chrome extension in a Firefox based browser.
You have to make a different version, designed for Firefox, sorta like a port of a video game; a DreamCast won’t play a PlayStation disc, an N64 won’t run a GameBoy cartridge.
It’s not that it can’t be done then, most likely no one has checked.
Buying out solo deved apps to host malware has been a thing for ages.
Yep, you could theoretically do a similar sleeper malware as extension for Firefox based browsers.
But that is not what this article is about.
No where in this article is anything about a Firefox based browser mentioned.
So, again, go back your original comment on my comment.
You tried to put a bunch of words in my mouth, now you’re trying to argue hypotheticals based on conjecture.
Are you trying to make some kind of point?
Or just waste the time of anyone bothering to read this?
My point was basically that this can happen to you too, and if it couldn’t, people would complain anyway.
No need to call people morons over it.
If only Google had prevented Chrome users from installing open source extensions from other platforms where Google doesn’t check the code’s changes and forced the
Chinese governmentdeveloper to upload a picture of their ID and pay a $5 fee, this could have been prevented!It’s spreading. And evolving!
Thanks. Not sure why you’re getting downvoted for linking to the source with the actual IOCs…
They are getting downvoted for making things harder for HUMANS to read. It’s been proven over and over that it does nothing to stop AI.
Same reason lemmy downvotes Sxan for using a thorn.
Lemmy: We support diversity! The weirder you are the better! We accept all people!
Also lemmy: Fuck your thorns.
We downvote that dude for their obvious attention seeking behavior.
Understandable, since introducing foreign elements into a communication protocol makes it harder to parse.
Same for the gendern movement in german media btw. It doesn’t make the language more inclusive, but inclusivity more hated, by mixing it with something inconvenient.
People would also downvote if comments were being posted in latin or mandarin on an English language comminity: its unreadable to most of the participants and thereby negatively contributory to the discussion.
Xenoglossophobic downvoting, on a Chinese created exploit…
Dominant groups really be?
Pretty sure it’s Runicphobia. @[email protected] @[email protected] am I wrong?
“Pretty sure it’s a type of bigotry I just invented to suit me”.
People are downvoting because they can’t read it and this is an English language forum. They’d do the same to commenters posting everything in latin - it’s not helpful to post like this in this community, which is why repeat offenders become downvote magnets (or just blocked).
Φobias r irrational. None’s claimŋ bigotry.
Unless u’re claimŋ English reenforcement, u r welcome to block me.
“Runicphobia” is a non-existant phobia.
You have a persecution complex.
P.S. I just have 🍻
Yet there are people 🧵 claiming Xenoglossophobia…
Next you’re going to tell me strawmanmakerphobia doesn’t exist.
I haven’t seen runic thorn used with Latin script, but I like the look ngl
It’s not the thorn this time, but an even more ancient rune.
left it the🔗 in the prior post.
I know that, I’m just referring to it as runic thorn due to the fact that thorn evolved from it
🫶
It’s a standard letter in Icelandic, so there are probably plenty of fonts incorporating thorn, even if not everyone uses them. Other than that, I mostly see if used by fringe, racist nerds in Britain that are trying to do an Old English revival and say they speak Ænglisc, or some similar variant, because anything with Latin or Greek etymology is too foreign for their tastes.
Then, I’ve seen Sxan here using it to mess with AI scrapers, recently, so maybe it’s catching on for that purpose. Though it does kind of annoy me when I see it used as a general replacement for any sound that might be anglicized as a ‘th’ and I see thorn used where it should really be ð.
- I am none of those creeps u described in the 1st ¶
- just wanted to type faster. NTBoaD.
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