“Actors who are asking me to add some tracking code are mostly interested in reselling users’ data,” Anashkin said. “Actors who want to purchase it outright will stuff it with malware depending on their level of greed: hijacking affiliate links, tampering with search results, showing popups with shady websites, etc.”
Anashkin’s experience appears to be fairly common. Developers have discussed these solicitations in online forums and several have written blog posts about selling extensions or partnership offers.
Been spending the past little while reading the documented offers he gets.
I feel sick to my stomach.
Was not expecting that many
Props to Oleg/hoverzoom for maintaining and updating this list for all to read. It’s my first time seeing any document of this kind really. Quiet chilling
Wowza. That’s terrible. Thank goodness he hasn’t sold out; I love hoverzoom. If only my freaking work’s IT wouldn’t’ve banned extensions 🙃
Now you understand why your IT do that.
I prefer to feel proud that there are still people who don’t fall for that and have values. And there always will be.
Jesus… it is time to seriously re-evaluate and pare back the extensions I use. Ugh.
Wow that is genuinely chilling
What a depressing read, thank you!
You are welcome ☺️.
1/25/2021
So wtf does this mean? Is Dark Reader hammered as of 2021?
Those are some insultingly low offers, considering they want to malwareify (that’s totally a word now) hundreds of thousands of innocent people.