Geeks Are Sexy: Cat Gatekeeper: This Chrome Extension Sends a Cat to End Your Doomscrolling . “Here’s how it works: you set your scrolling limit and your forced break, and when the timer runs out, BOOM, a giant and very fat cat appears on your screen and refuses to move. You are now legally required to stare at the cat until the ‘forced break’ timer runs out.”

Lifehacker: These 108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Are Stealing Google and Telegram Data. “As reported by The Hacker News, cybersecurity researchers with Socket’s Threat Research Team have identified 108 extensions available in Google Chrome that steal login credentials, user IDs, and browsing data. All 108 extensions route that information back to servers controlled by a single operator, […]

Tom’s Hardware: LinkedIn is spying on you, according to a new ‘BrowserGate’ security report — scripts stealthily scan visitors’ browsers for over 6,000 Chrome extensions and harvest hardware data. “LinkedIn is understood to be injecting a JavaScript fingerprinting script into every page load that probes visitors’ browsers for 6,236 installed Chrome extensions and collects detailed device […]

Jens Oliver Meiert: Releasing Searcher, a Configurable, Privacy-Minded Chromium Extension to Trigger Random Searches. “As part of my brand-new IA Defensa family of mini defense tools, Searcher Chromium is a configurable and extensible browser extension that automatically enters and can trigger searches on Google, Amazon, and almost any other site with a search field. The capability makes it […]

The Register: Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts. “Your latest chat transcript could be bought and sold. Data brokers are selling access to sensitive personal data captured during chatbot conversations, despite claims that the data is anonymized and obtained with consent.”

ZDNet: The permissions behind your AI Chrome extensions deserve a closer look – they may be spying on you. “New research from data removal service Incogni finds that more than half of a sample set of AI Chrome extensions collect user data. Almost a third are ‘gathering personally identifiable information (PII).'”

MakeUseOf: This browser extension gets rid of every cookie pop-up on every site. “There’s a lot of malicious intent and security vulnerabilities that can come from sharing the wrong kinds of cookies. That’s why I use Consent-O-Matic, a browser extension that eliminates me having to deal with any cookie pop-ups that I don’t want to.”

Lifehacker: If You’ve Installed Any of These 17 Browser Extensions, Delete Them Now. “Threat actors planted malicious JavaScript code in the extension’s PNG logo, which served as a malware loader to retrieve the main payload from a remote server. Researchers at LayerX have found an additional 17 malicious extensions across multiple browsers that have collectively been installed more than […]

Lifehacker: These Popular Chrome Extensions Are Stealing Your AI Chats. “Hackers continue to find ways to sneak malicious extensions into the Chrome web store—this time, the two offenders are impersonating an add-on that allows users to have conversations with ChatGPT and DeepSeek while on other websites and exfiltrating the data to threat actors’ servers.”

MakeUseOf: These YouTube add-ons make watching long videos actually enjoyable. “The good news is that you are not stuck with YouTube in its default, chaotic form. With a carefully chosen set of browser extensions, you can peel away the noise and restore YouTube to what it was supposed to be: a focused space for entertainment and learning.”

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