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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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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

The extensions in question in case you can't access the article.

  • Blipshot (one click full page screenshots)
  • Emojis - Emoji Keyboard
  • WAToolkit
  • Color Changer for YouTube
  • Video Effects for YouTube and Audio Enhancer
  • Themes for Chrome and YouTube™ Picture in Picture
  • Mike Adblock für Chrome | Chrome-Werbeblocker
  • Page Refresh
  • Wistia Video Downloader
  • Super Dark Mode
  • Emoji Keyboard Emojis for Chrome
  • Adblocker for Chrome - NoAds
  • Adblock for You
  • Adblock for Chrome
  • Nimble Capture
  • KProxy
[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (7 children)

All of these already sound shady.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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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