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revicon commented on Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data qcontinuum.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/qcontinuum1

amalter · 5 days ago

Is there any irony in a thread on browser malware that includes a "please run this bash script blind"?

Not that I don't trust you, but between now and when someone stumbles on this thread, your domain could expire and I could publish something crazy at that url.

revicon · 5 days ago

This is why I put the raw url to the script first in my comment. Downloading the script file, doing a chmod +x and then a ./script.sh to execute it is daunting for some.

But I'll add a caveat to my original comment as well.

edit: Looks like I can't edit my original comment anymore.

revicon commented on Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data qcontinuum.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/qcontinuum1

revicon · 5 days ago

If you're on a mac, you can list all the IDs of your installed browser extensions across all your profiles like this...

  find "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome" \
    -type d -path "*/Extensions/*" -not -path "*/Extensions/*/*" \
    -print 2>/dev/null | sed 's#.*/Extensions/##' | sort -u

Compare to the list of bad extensions. I stuck a stripped down list here...

  https://www.sfbaylabs.org/files2/2026-02-11/chrome_extensions_exfiltrating_history.txt

revicon · 5 days ago

Here's a one-shot script that does the compare for you, in case it's helpful...

  https://www.sfbaylabs.org/files2/2026-02-11/bad_browser_extension_check_osx.sh

You can run it directly if you cut/paste this in your mac terminal...

  curl -fsSL https://www.sfbaylabs.org/files2/2026-02-11/bad_browser_extension_check_osx.sh | bash

revicon commented on Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data qcontinuum.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/qcontinuum1

revicon · 5 days ago

If you're on a mac, you can list all the IDs of your installed browser extensions across all your profiles like this...

  find "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome" \
    -type d -path "*/Extensions/*" -not -path "*/Extensions/*/*" \
    -print 2>/dev/null | sed 's#.*/Extensions/##' | sort -u

Compare to the list of bad extensions. I stuck a stripped down list here...

  https://www.sfbaylabs.org/files2/2026-02-11/chrome_extensions_exfiltrating_history.txt

revicon commented on Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience? · Posted by u/cvhc

revicon · 16 days ago

It seems there are a bots on here commenting and upvoting each other. If HN is susceptible to this, it feels like there's no chance for the rest of the web. Damn.

revicon commented on Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience? · Posted by u/cvhc

revicon · 16 days ago

It is amazing how much they’re gaming the twitter algorithm, everything in my feed is claw/molt/whatever for the last week.

It’s a masterclass in spammy marketing, I wonder if it’s actually converting into actual users.

revicon commented on Claude's new constitution anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

buppermint · a month ago

Anthropic has already has lower guardrails for DoD usage: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/680465/a...

It's interesting to me that a company that claims to be all about the public good:

- Sells LLMs for military usage + collaborates with Palantir

- Releases by far the least useful research of all the major US and Chinese labs, minus vanity interp projects from their interns

- Is the only major lab in the world that releases zero open weight models

- Actively lobbies to restrict Americans from access to open weight models

- Discloses zero information on safety training despite this supposedly being the whole reason for their existence

revicon · a month ago

https://archive.ph/aRsRV

revicon commented on New York proposal requires 3D printer manufacturers to prevent gun printing tomshardware.com/3d-print... · Posted by u/revicon

revicon · a month ago

“the proposed law will also make sharing and possession of 3D files containing guns or gun components illegal”

Posted by u/revicon a month ago

New York proposal requires 3D printer manufacturers to prevent gun printing tomshardware.com/3d-print...

revicon commented on Ask HN: Share your personal website · Posted by u/susam

revicon · a month ago

https://www.mattcrampton.com

revicon commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl

bongodongobob · 3 months ago

It doesn't cost anyone anything. They can just raise prices 3 cents or whatever.

revicon · 3 months ago

The statistics on consumers evaluating the purchase of something that is $9.99 vs $10 is well proven.

Switching to round number prices would cost retailers a whole lot more.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002243599...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23547242_Penny_Wise...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002243590...

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