“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.

16 points

…… if you’re using chrome, Google baked these things in anyways sooo……

permalink
report
reply
11 points
*
Deleted by creator
permalink
report
parent
reply
63 points
*

The trick is to sell it at a high price and immediately fork. Get paid and fuck off.

Then do it again and again and again. Infinite money glitch. Don’t worry about getting sued after a bit you’ll be rich enough to be immune from prosecution.

permalink
report
reply
26 points

The sell contract would probably include a full license transfer of all copyright, and probably a non-compete clause.

permalink
report
parent
reply
9 points

How’d uBlock (Origin) get around that?

permalink
report
parent
reply
12 points

Not all transfers include “non competes”

permalink
report
parent
reply
26 points

It was a main branch overtake. Not a sellout. He was kicked put of his project.

permalink
report
parent
reply
32 points

Yes, criminal activity is everywhere, problem is we haven’t yet forbid selling of users data.

permalink
report
reply
6 points

And it’s very unlikely to happen, since our governments are very interested in spying us / buying our data.

permalink
report
parent
reply
51 points

The extension in question btw is Zoom+ for people that don’t want to click

permalink
report
reply
21 points

“Hover Zoom+”

permalink
report
parent
reply
9 points

Wow, this actually take me back to the early days of imgur, when the site wasnt a mess

permalink
report
parent
reply
63 points

The alternate universe where Anashkin doesn’t fall for the dark side

permalink
report
reply
13 points

We must ask him his opinions on sand

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

Anashkin skhiwhalker

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

Shkinwalker

permalink
report
parent
reply

Privacy

!privacy@lemmy.ml

Create post

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

  • Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
  • Don’t promote proprietary software
  • Try to keep things on topic
  • If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
  • Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
  • Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

Community stats

  • 4K

    Monthly active users

  • 3K

    Posts

  • 78K

    Comments