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August 17, 2018 02:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ynpEKhG3Dpk/mozilla-removes-23-firefox-add-ons-that-snooped-on-users
Mozilla Removes 23 Firefox Add-Ons That Snooped On Users
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla has removed 23 Firefox add-ons from its add-on store that snooped on users and sent data to remote servers, a Mozilla engineer told Bleeping Computer Friday. The list of blocked add-ons includes "Web Security," a security-centric Firefox add-on with over 220,000 users, which was at the center of a controversy this week after it was caught sending users' browsing histories to a server located in Germany. "The mentioned add-on has been taken down, together with others after I conducted a thorough audit of [the] add-ons," Rob Wu, a Mozilla Browser Engineer and Add-on review, told Bleeping Computer via email. "These add-ons are no longer available at AMO and [have been] disabled in the browsers of users who installed them," Wu said.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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