Browser extensions turn nearly 1M browsers into website-scraping bots

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Browser extensions turn nearly 1M browsers into website-scraping bots

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Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

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Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?

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