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jamesgilltoday at 2:43 PM1 replyview on HN

https://browsergate.eu/extensions/

It seems to not scan for Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin, two extensions I rely on. That's...surprising.


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x0x0today at 3:34 PM

Because what they're scanning for is scrapers. So much linkedin scraping. And I'd bet that the majority of the innocuous-looking extensions are scrapers hidden as other extensions to get users to unknowingly use them.