tl;dr Add-on developer ansh sold out the extension to new owners. Commited updates 1.8.8 to the Mozilla repository, but nothing on GitHub containing the malware. The malware was a custom implementation of the mellowtel scraper mentioned in the arstechnica article. It had the opt-in functionality disabled and other “bugs” which caused excessive bandwidth usage. Please be aware there is no independent verification whether not more possible harm was caused than the mentioned mellowtel scraping.

By jiffyreader, the from the github link provided:

"Hey all,

Sorry for the delay in answering here. I was waiting for the dust to settle a little bit before clearing things up.

I tried to explain the timeline and sequence of actions in the last messages. Many of you want to know the reasons behind them.

I saw that developers were earning a lot from turning their products into proxies for scraping and were being paid by proxy providers like anyIP or brightdata. Usually they pay more for mobile proxies. So I decided to try a similar idea. I saw that Jiffy Reader had already tried with mellowtel but had stopped after a while. I thought I could monetize it by making a custom integration and bought the plugin. I tried the open source version of mellowtel but changed the code in order to make it native (refer to the Single Purpose policy issue above) and removed some of the limits in the library. In the process I introduced bugs and caused issues to a lot of you which triggered the malware report. The reason why these bugs were not immediately clear and I couldn’t solve them is because they showed up based on some specific requests/websites (google search or pdf download, etc.) and device conditions (pdf viewer open/scrolling a tab with videos) which I didn’t have a way to replicate and solve.

As I remarked before, the plugin didn’t steal any cookies/credit cards/password or personal data and you can check the network output logs or any VPN logs to confirm. You are still free to change passwords/auth sessions but JiffyReader didn’t collect or leak any of this personal information.

Ideally, I wanted to keep the product running/improving it and using this forked version for monetization without affecting users negatively. But in my eagerness to have the version accepted by the review team I changed the code to not display the opt-in and out page immediately and that removed a lot of user control. And I think I introduced some bugs (but from an arstechnica article that @concernedcitizen2 has also linked it looks like the original library had some issues on its own, so it could also be due to that).

For GDPR, I haven’t collected any data from this bandwidth sharing monetization (including IPs which I don’t store). The privacy policy on the website refers to google analytics, to the Crisp web chat and to any contact information the user might pass to us. The public pages that were scraped didn’t have to do anything with the websites a user might be visiting. The same goes for Meucci.js which just monitored xhr/ajax requests INSIDE the session-less frame, not outside, so again it didn’t revolve around any user data. You can look at the mellowtel library since I used a lot of that code

Sorry for the issues and concerns I’ve caused with these actions.

I will be committing all changes to this repo and removing all the flawed forked code. I will also send a new version for the same to FireFox, Edge and Chrome again. Going forward, I will always keep the open-source version in sync with the submitted version.

If anyone wants to reach out, you can do at [email protected]. I feel like it’s not good to keep this discussion on this repo and I’ve created a separate Discord in the meanwhile: https://discord.gg/cjwS8vmR3R

I’m really sorry for this and having removed a useful plugins that so many people used. Thanks for your understanding."

Here is the full list of extensions: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vT1XgBs25gRlg5e3nYCAff967WMtZZTO-TB3rR9zszaJpTpCVFg8j7FkBxnHb3tw3aHGjKBGSxYyLgV/pubhtml?pli=1

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The Deep Fake Detector probably can’t keep up anymore with the recent AI advances.

This should be illegal. As a person who was once false flagged manually by network attribution. Of course the anti troll flagging network was itself socially destroyed by time and is frequently cause of scandals while nobody cares for me.

Add certain language patterns and political stances and you have an excellent oppressive tool.

The behavior the study is referring to, is actually result of reddit’s algorithms and human psychology. Often the contrarian view of whatever the post is about will automatically float to the top, no matter the topic, opinionated, factual or debunking, nature.

This is on-topic, because it happened at Microsoft’s event.

All three of them, and many more in the background.

Commented here on this post: https://lemmy.world/comment/14631383

It isn’t an all that interesting post in the first place and many people claiming they are so stoic and smart they would whitelist by code inspect, for something which is a single click is wild.

Not everything has an alternative, and thankfully the core website works 95% wit adblock enabled.

It is a recent screenshot from overtake.gg, a sim racing community hub.

We need fact checkers more than community notes. Because disproving a claim takes a lot of time and skill, and notes will be abused for financial and personal gain in the long run. Perhaps it is also better to use the word content moderator instead of fact checker, as finding the ultimate truth isn’t possible, unless you just present a mathematical proof.

Now I can relate.

It is an odd and unfitting statement, but the feeling is genuine and not raw sexual desire. It is easier to relate to good looking people than ones with disfigurement. Some Special Books By Special Kids thumbnails gross me out brutally, even if it is not something I want to happen.

It is overlooked because filesharing gets you into trouble and Plex is for various reasons the much more evolved alternative.

Could you explain what this community was about?

There is the psychological factor that Windows behaves more like malware with their forced full screen overlays to shove the Edge into your ass. Over and over again. Microsoft doesn’t take No for an answer like an abusive partner.

No, because the headline has no information on what it is. And when I opened the site indeed it is devoid of informational content.

Hate the clickbait article naming. Downvoted.

Go to the outer status page. The router should display whether it has an internet connection to your provider. If no, then your router/modem has no credentials or another issue preventing access.

If it shows as working, then you can narrow it down to incorrect DNS and IP routing. Perhaps dynamic IP allocation is set to off or another configuration error or bug, in which case you might need to reset all the router settings. Then, is it only broken for a single end device?