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Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations

Besides ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, the extensions harvest all conversations from Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI. Koi said the full description of the data captured includes: Every prompt a user sends to the AI Every response received Conversation identifiers and timestamps Session metadata The specific AI platform and model used The executor script… Read More »

Adblockers installed 300,000 times are malicious and should be removed now

Getty Images reader comments 22 with 16 posters participating Share this story Adblocking extensions with more than 300,000 active users have been surreptitiously uploading user browsing data and tampering with users’ social media accounts thanks to malware its new owner introduced a few weeks ago, according to technical analyses and posts on Github. Hugo Xu,… Read More »