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submitted 1 week 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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[-] Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Some of them also sound pointless, e.g the emoji keyboards. I know for a fact windows, macos and chromeos have inbuild emoji selectors. On linux KDE also has an selector, idk about gnome but even if it doesn't have one there's probably a shell exstention for that, there's also an app called grin (or maybe smile? can't be bothered to google rn). I literally can't see a reason to use an web extension over those.

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