Cursed Addons – Add-ons für Firefox (de)
addons.mozilla.orgLaden Sie Firefox-Sammlungen herunter und erstellen Sie sie, um Ihre bevorzugten Erweiterungen und Themes im Auge zu behalten. Entdecken Sie die Cursed Addons – Dont use these lol. Okay more details: some are utter garbage, some pretend to be something they are not, and a lot of big tech doing proprietary tracking stuff under the hood of "security" or even "privacy through a VPN".
You must log in or register to comment.
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
Chat rooms
-
[Matrix/Element]Dead
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
- 0 users online
- 57 users / day
- 383 users / week
- 1.5K users / month
- 5.7K users / 6 months
- 1 subscriber
- 2.97K Posts
- 74.6K Comments
- Modlog
You’ve forgotten all those extensions which look for discount codes at checkout on online stores, in think “Honey” was one of them.
Will add them!
What’s wrong with open in Microsoft edge and no tabs?
Its hard to put “bad Addons” from cringe to wtf to evil-corp into one pot.
Why would you do that. This would 1. mean you are using Windows 2. Use this browser that is not more secure than Firefox Flatpak and tracks users.
If you want Videocalls, simply use an unhardened Firefox profile. “What is a profile?” If you dont know that, you dont need them as EVERYTHING will just work (WebGL, WebRTC, no fingerprinting resistance).
And normal websites should ALL work even on Arkenfox + Noscript.
This is so much how the Windows Explorer feels after using a capable File Manager like basically every on Linux.
MAYBE your OS has some fancy way its way better having several windows open that having a few small rectangle carts at the top. But I dont think that.
Haha okay, until recently I had 949 Tabs open.
But anyways. Autodeleting tabs for minimalism? I get that. Not using tabs at all?? The “Windows way”?? No damn way. Even Microsoft got it now in their damn slow Explorer.
These are just functionality you don’t want which they also say they do, nothing seems to be wrong with the addons themselves… I could say the both for a bee theme on the marketplace and put it in cursed if that’s really the reason
No they dont offer functionality I dont want. Security? Privacy? Of course! They do false promises and trick users that… you know have an Antivirus program on their system.
How do these extensions do that? I’m not sure what you mean, I tried it and later uninstalled it a few days ago and saw nothing wrong… The open in edge extension literally just adds the edge protocol in front of the link
Haha I guess the open in edge addon has nothing wrong in its code.
open in microsoft edge could technically be used to open in any chromium browser…
I use an extension in edge for opening things in Firefox, by the same guy. It can technically run any command on your system, but requires a daemon on your computer to do so
This lacks reasons for the selection (some are obvious, others less so).
yes totally
I use Bitwarden, but what’s wrong with 1password?
They had a database breach afaik. Also a Malwarebytes extension will VERY likely compare every URL i.e. track you unnecessarily. There is UBlock Origin, nothing more needed.
Sounds possible, but do you have evidence?
Not yet. Functionality looks unnecessary though, as its simply UBlock origin.
Will have to do a mtim analysis which I dont really see myself doing
Even if they did that, there are ways to do that without compromising privacy.
They did not have a data breach.
Ok thanks for the heads up. Seems to be just a service offering proprietary cloud-based password storage.
I think this is very toxic towards forming habits for People.
I will do a Step-by-step guide for Android and Linux/Windows, how to sync your passwords between devices using Syncthing and KeepassXC/DX. It is so easy, like 15 steps and you are done, with images and all.
Nothing. Some guy on the internet that uses Firefox doesn’t like them.
Also, Malewarebytes? I don’t use them but I thought they were actually legit.
Only the free malware detection. But they tend to bundle a lot of “clean your registry”, “reclaim unused space”, “pay us to
sieve all your private browsing datakeep you secure” bloat as well. It shouldn’t be permanently on your system as they can track and funnel data like crazy if you let them.So basically like every antivirus.
They recently implemented some in app analytics. But it’s opt-in. The feature is turned off by default. 1Password still pretty great, especially if you are using it with your family.
actual link
Done
Please don’t use other posts as the URL for your post, it takes people away from their instance to the instance where it’s hosted. It doesn’t affect you because the link is in your local instance, but it affects everyone else.
Instead, use the same Mozilla URL that your other post used, then Lemmy should identify it and place an instance agnostic cross-post link to your other post.
Tbf, it’s smarter to fix that in software than ask people to change their behavior.
While true right now we’re still in the early days and working out some of the papercuts so to say of this new software :)
Why Gosthery?
Ghostery started out great, then they were bought by an ad company. There was a feature where you could mark something that had slipped past Ghostery as an ad, which they then used to fine tune the ads to make it past the filter.
The Wikipedia page is actually pretty good on this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery
Is there a general recommendation for a similar addon? Is PrivacyBadger the way to go?
uBlock Origin?
Damn. I’m a bit surprised it’s labeled “recommended”
I’m glad Lemmy is appropriating the whole cursed schtick from Reddit. Even just seeing the subbnames like
CursedCommentsmakes me laugh