@Techmeme@techhub.socialSecurity company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and sold them for marketing use (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/1…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgFirefox should really strip down the browser to the core, make that performant and secure. Maybe even improve extension interfaces and then deliver whatever "AI" nonsense they want through extensions. Would make it so easy to stop having to talk about kill switches and how "hard" those are. Offer people all the slop extensions in the world and see who will download them.
@shaun@mastodon.xyz
@emd@cosocial.caI handles many of important extensions, I’m liking it so far. But no safari extensions unfortunately, so missing my favourite blocker.
It is wicked fast though. https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/115634295732705020
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialI pray for the devs of browser extensions that have active audiences, shits gotta be exhausting.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions«
WTF?! Now don't tell me that this surprises you. Why do so many people still naively think to keep their privacy over VPN's for data-hungry big corporations?
🤷 https://www.koi.ai/blo…
@dotproto@toot.cafe@… has a nice writeup about the differences between Chrome extensions and WebExtensions https://www.howtogeek.com/what-is-a-webext
@deepthoughts10@infosec.exchangeRE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115952799623237972
Catalin makes a good point here: if you can, you should try to actively manage the browser extensions your business users are allowed to install. There are multiple ways to do this on Windows, u…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGuardio, which helps detect malicious code created with AI tools, raised $80M led by ION Crossover, and says it has 500K paying users and $100M in ARR in 2025 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/19/security-startup-guardio-n…
