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Feb 11 2026 Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers

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Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says They know where you've been and they're going to share it. A security researcher has identified 287 Chrome extensions that allegedly exfiltrate browsing history data for an estimated 37.4 million installations.... [...]

Posted by Thomas Claburn on Wed 11 February 2026 in The Register.

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