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.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/11/makeuseof-these-youtube-add-ons-make-watching-long-videos-actually-enjoyable/

The Register: Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware. “A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people’s data to servers in China. And, according to Koi researchers, five of the extensions with more than […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/02/the-register-stealthy-browser-extensions-waited-years-before-infecting-4-3m-chrome-edge-users-with-backdoors-and-spyware/

MakeUseOf: This browser extension keeps every idea I highlight instantly searchable. “This Chrome extension lets you highlight text on any webpage and keeps all your highlights searchable and organized in one place. No more lost bookmarks. No more hunting through history. Everything you highlight becomes instantly findable. You can tag highlights, add notes, and search across your entire […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/03/makeuseof-this-browser-extension-keeps-every-idea-i-highlight-instantly-searchable/

MakeUseOf: These 5 browser extensions make every website more useful. “Your browser hides a bunch of shortcuts and settings you’ve never even noticed, but it’s the extensions that really decide how you experience the web. They smooth out the little irritations your browser can’t fix, sneak in clever features you didn’t realize you were missing, and take over the boring stuff you do on repeat. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/31/makeuseof-these-5-browser-extensions-make-every-website-more-useful/

Mozilla Blog: New Recommended Extensions arrived, thanks to our community curators . ” A few candidates are still working their way through the final stages of review, but most of the new batch of Recommended Extensions are now live on AMO (addons.mozilla.org) and we wanted to share the news, so without further ado here are some exciting new additions to the program…”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/30/mozilla-blog-new-recommended-extensions-arrived-thanks-to-our-community-curators/