N-gated Hacker NewsApr 7, 2025
Oh wow, another life-changing 🎉 web extension for the 0.0001% of users who lose sleep over managing #IndexedDB databases! 🤓 Because clearly, what the world desperately needed was a way to browse, edit, and manage their secret stash of browser data like it's the next great frontier. 🚀
https://github.com/hummingme/kahuna #lifechanging #webextension #browserdata #technews #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - hummingme/kahuna: Browse, edit and manage IndexedDB databases in Firefox and Chromium browsers

Browse, edit and manage IndexedDB databases in Firefox and Chromium browsers - hummingme/kahuna

GitHub
beeps' backup Sep 2, 2024

GOV.UK Browser Data (August 2024)

And now for something a little different. Instead of stringing these together into a thread this month, I've started collating the data together on a webpage along with historical comparisons.

https://beeps.website/govuk-browser-data/

#browsers #browserstats #browserdata

GOV.UK browser and OS analytics

Collated browser and operating system data from the GOV.UK website.

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ITSEC NewsFeb 14, 2020
500 Malicious Chrome Extensions Impact Millions of Users - The malicious Chrome extensions were secretly collecting users' browser data and redirecting them ... more: https://threatpost.com/500-malicious-chrome-extensions-millions/152918/ #maliciousextension #vulnerabilities #chromeextension #googlechrome #websecurity #browserdata #userdata #malware #google
500 Malicious Chrome Extensions Impact Millions of Users

The malicious Chrome extensions were secretly collecting users’ browser data and redirecting them to malware-laced websites.

Threatpost - English - Global - threatpost.com
https://mastodon.social/@rzrOct 15, 2019
https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/stealing-sensitive-browser-data-with-the-w3c-ambient-light-sensor-api/# #InfoSec : Stealing sensitive #browserdata with the #W3C #AmbientLightSensor API
Stealing sensitive browser data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API

In this post we describe and demonstrate a neat trick to exfiltrate sensitive information from your browser using a surprising tool: your smartphone or laptop’s ambient light sensor. In short: 1. We provide background about the light sensor API and current discussions to expose it more broadly to websites. 2. We show how the color of the screen of the user’s device can affect light sensor readings, and explain why this has dangerous security and privacy consequences. We focus on