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"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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Been spending the past little while reading the documented offers he gets.

I feel sick to my stomach.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 🙃

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now you understand why your IT do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I prefer to feel proud that there are still people who don't fall for that and have values. And there always will be.