Your trusted extension/add-on with over 100k review might be spying on you.

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Extensions are plug-ins that give your web browser superpowers - or at the very least, capabilities it didn’t have right out of the box. But the way extensions are built and distributed also makes ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Hundreds of popular add‑ons used encrypted, URL‑sized payloads to send search queries, referrers, and timestamps to outside servers, in some cases tied to data brokers and unknown operators.