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submitted 2 weeks ago by jarfil@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

a number of popular extensions that enable things like dark mode and adblocking in Google’s browser have been hijacked by hackers, putting 3.2 million Chrome users at risk.

While all of the extensions listed below have since been removed from the Chrome Web Store, you will still need to manually delete them if they’re currently installed in your browser

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[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The extensions in question in case you can't access the article.

  • Blipshot (one click full page screenshots)
  • Emojis - Emoji Keyboard
  • WAToolkit
  • Color Changer for YouTube
  • Video Effects for YouTube and Audio Enhancer
  • Themes for Chrome and YouTube™ Picture in Picture
  • Mike Adblock für Chrome | Chrome-Werbeblocker
  • Page Refresh
  • Wistia Video Downloader
  • Super Dark Mode
  • Emoji Keyboard Emojis for Chrome
  • Adblocker for Chrome - NoAds
  • Adblock for You
  • Adblock for Chrome
  • Nimble Capture
  • KProxy
[-] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 39 points 2 weeks ago

All of these already sound shady.

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 13 points 2 weeks ago

I had the "Page Refresh" one... disabled, but still installed. There are multiple "[Auto] [Easy] Page/Tab Refresh/Reload" extensions in the store, hard to pick one that won't go rogue.

[-] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 3 points 2 weeks ago

"Page refresh". You mean F5 (or ctrl + r) right?

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 11 points 1 week ago

Yes, every 30 seconds, for hours on end.

Useful for many things, starting with CI/CD status panels.

A lot harder to do when it’s not on your computer. At work we have some TVs displaying a web oage full screen. I’m not gonna vnc in just to hit F5 every 30 minutes.

[-] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You can set the webpage to self refresh on interval by itself no extensions needed.

We already have it for every 20 minutes but sometimes it fails for various reasons. 30 minutes is the backup before I just reboot it.

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