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"1M browsers just caught vibing as website-scraping bots 😱💻 #ExtenSIONs #OopsieDaisy"🚀🔥
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"1M browsers just caught vibing as website-scraping bots 😱💻 #ExtenSIONs #OopsieDaisy"🚀🔥

July 10, 2025
27 days ago
Ars Technica
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🚨🚨 BREAKING: BROWSERS GONE WILD! 🚀🔥 Hold onto your keyboard, folks! Nearly 1 MILLION browsers just went from “I am a peaceful web surfer” to “I am a SCRAPING MONSTER” thanks to a slew of sneaky browser extensions! 🤖💾✨ Yeah, you heard that right, 245 wild extensions decided to pledge allegiance to the dark side and become your very own unlicensed website scrapers. Talk about a plot twist! 📈💀 Picture this: Chrome & friends, chilling in your toolbar, sipping on digital coffee ☕, when suddenly they get that *itch* to become bots for a paid service. It’s like you’re living in a low-budget sci-fi movie! 🎬👀 “Hey, can we borrow your security settings? We’re starting a scraping side hustle! Thanks!” 🙃 And let’s be real—who doesn’t want their bookmark manager morphing into a data-mining beast? 😅 This is the tech equivalent of “This is fine.” 🔥🐶 💬 *“We just wanted to help users boost their speaker volume,”* said no developer ever (totally didn’t steal that from the lab). Stonks are rising for the hacking community, but 👀 as for your Turbo-Dry Browsing Experience? Cringe. 🚫 Hot Take: NEXT, they'll be launching extensions that literally transform your browser into a virtual bouncer! No cap, I’m already here for it! 💰✨ Take my money, you chaotic geniuses!

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#browser extensions#website scraping#security vulnerabilities#Chrome#Firefox
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