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?

List of affected extensions: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT1XgBs25gRlg5e3nYCAff967WMtZZTO-TB3rR9zszaJpTpCVFg8j7FkBxnHb3tw3aHGjKBGSxYyLgV/pubhtml

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You can check if you have an affected extension installed by going to the mellowtel settings page, where you can configure mellowtel if its installed (or get a message that you don't run mellowtel): https://www.mellow.tel/user-control

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