Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History
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But this boost of attention from the Mozilla team didn’t go down as intended. Hours after Mozilla’s blog post, Raymond Hill, the author of the uBlock Origin ad blocker pointed out on Reddit that the add-on exhibited a weird behavior.
“With this extension, I see that for every page you load in your browser, there is a POST to http://136.243.163.73/,” Hill said. “The posted data is garbled, maybe someone will have the time to investigate further.”