My most useful Chrome extension was stealing my data for years

An extension I used almost every day was bought by a new owner and loaded up with spyware. It happened in 2024, but Google only removed it this week.
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He Built the Definitive Epstein Database—and It Consumed His Life

In February, a user named EricKeller2 posted on Reddit. “I mapped every connection in the Epstein files,” he wrote. He had built a website and database of more than 1.5 million files related to the ...

This popular image-saving Chrome extension was just flagged as malware

This is where the popular Chrome extension Save Image as Type comes in (or used to come in). With over a million users at its ...
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Report: 90,000 AI license plate cameras store 30 days of data

Flock Safety, the company behind one of the largest automated license plate reader networks in the United States, retains vehicle surveillance data for 30 days across roughly 90,000 cameras before ...

Popular Chrome extension disabled for containing malware

Do you use the Chrome extension "Save image as Type?" If so, you are one of more than one million users who woke up this morning to find out that Google has disabled the extension in your Chrome web ...