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

First seen on theregister.com

Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/security_researcher_287_chrome_extensions_data_leak/

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