[snakeoil]

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/g ... y-n1231400

A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech industry’s failure to protect browsers as they are used more for email, payroll and other sensitive functions.

Alphabet's Google said it removed more than 70 of the malicious add-ons from its official Chrome Web Store after being alerted by the researchers last month.

“When we are alerted of extensions in the Web Store that violate our policies, we take action and use those incidents as training material to improve our automated and manual analyses,” Google spokesman Scott Westover told Reuters.

I find it hard to believe that Google didn't know about this spyware up front. I would never use Chrome as Google knows every keystroke you make.

I use Ubuntu. I use IXQuick as my browser. IXQuick does not record your searches and it is billed as the world's most private search engine.

[johnforbes]

I just log on with a state of the art IBM 286 clone.

My logon is via a 1200 baud dialup modem.

[elklindo69]

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/g ... y-n1231400

A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech industry’s failure to protect browsers as they are used more for email, payroll and other sensitive functions.

Alphabet's Google said it removed more than 70 of the malicious add-ons from its official Chrome Web Store after being alerted by the researchers last month.

“When we are alerted of extensions in the Web Store that violate our policies, we take action and use those incidents as training material to improve our automated and manual analyses,” Google spokesman Scott Westover told Reuters.

I find it hard to believe that Google didn't know about this spyware up front. I would never use Chrome as Google knows every keystroke you make.

I use Ubuntu. I use IXQuick as my browser. IXQuick does not record your searches and it is billed as the world's most private search engine.

There is no need to use those chrome extensions in order to run your browser.

Alternatively, you can work in incognito mode if you don't want any cookies to track your history.....

[johnforbes]

Clowntoker's expertise in the martial arts is so incredible that he can shatter a chocolate chip cookie with one karate chop.

[Clownkicker]

^^^^^^^ I own that stupid fucker, living rent free in his vacuous skull.

I'm all he can think about, even when I'm not on the thread.

[johnforbes]

A company like Google really aspires to render moot the First Amendment (and the Fourth).

If you look at some of these people -- college dropout Gates, the little twerp who runs Twitter, the silly kid Zuck -- it really is shocking that they are ending free speech in America.

[elklindo69]

Private companies have the right to moderate the content on their platform. If you don't like it then you can go somewhere else.

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