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Nemeski to Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 7 months ago

Popular Chrome Extension to Hide YouTube Shorts Turned Malicious

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Popular Chrome Extension to Hide YouTube Shorts Turned Malicious

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Nemeski to Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 7 months ago
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A Chrome extension titled "Hide YouTube Shorts," used by 100,000 people, was discovered to secretly collect users' browser activity.
  • @gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2•7 months ago

    whats the extension’s name? + is it on ff?

    • Robust Mirror
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      4•6 months ago

      YouTube Shorts Normal Player

      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-shorts-normal-player/

      • @gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1•6 months ago

        thanks!!

    • @Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Just to give a little bit of context, shorts can natively played as videos by replacing the www.youtube.com/shorts/[…} url with www.youtube.com/watch?v=[…], so a simple url replacer will do as well.

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