![]() It wasn’t real easy to find the TOS, I had to search online, it wasn’t on Chromestore page and it wasn’t on their little promotional website. That’s only just part of it, but when I read all that I thought “this is BAD” and this app must be almost nothing but malware. If the company was sued and some users were included in the lawsuit, the company won’t help with your defense or even share their info with you, but you are required to hand over all your materials to THEM and be ready to support the companies defense. Then if the company got sued by a third party (all lawsuits must be filed in a court in jerusalem) they could demand that some user help with their defense but the user would have to pay all their expenses associated with it. was infected with malware they deny all responsibility (made me think the probably created it as malware) they were very specific about certain types of malware. At the very least you can try to find their own website and read what it says first, see if there is any contact info, are TOS very easy to find? I did that once, and what I read was so insane that no way would I ever install that app/extension!! If the ext. Also, as much of a pain as it is, I highly suggest reading the TOS. The new owner uploaded a new version to the Chrome Web Store, removing objectionable content but keeping the new permission requests.The analytics script in question raised several red flags, one developer citing that it was made to look like an analytics script only.The new owner uploaded a new version of the extension that requested more permissions, made remote calls and used a remote analytics script.The Great Suspender was sold to an unknown entity in mid-2020.Thibauld Colas published his analysis on GitHub, noting that the Open Web Analytics script that the extension was using, was "another application trying to pass for it". The new version removed the script but it kept the extra permissions that it requested when the previous version was released.ĭevelopers analyzed the code of the extension versions and discovered additional bits of code that added more weight to the "there is something fishy going on" camp. It’s … crazy.ĮDIT: I almost forgot how much I loved Netscape Mail and Newsgroups until I found other options much later.The new owner uploaded a new version of the extension after it got suspended by Microsoft from the company's web store. And that they are still in it says a lot about the dedication of the few working for them.īTW, not trying to argue with you at all I’m just drinking and reminiscing right now about all the Netscape (sorry, I guess we should call it Mosaic) browsing I did in Unix, Linux and PC and just how far things have gone today and the history of it all. You have three of the richest IT companies in the world: Google, Apple, and Microsoft, competing for the equivalent of browser wars today and then you have … Firefox. Born from the ashes of, well, failure, it’s hard to have good development and engineering with a budget of damn near nothing. THAT is one of the reasons Firefox is where it is today. ![]() If you really want to go back about bitching about Chrome though, remember there was Netscape, the 800 lb gorilla at the time who, well, shot themselves in the foot so much they had no toes left, then got sold and had all their fingers shot off as well. Tell me you don’t use Firefox sync and I’ll tell you you’re missing out on a very cool function. I can log in and get to damn near anything I was on via another device and see other settings that are familiar as well, like bookmarks, etc. ![]() I browse on my phone, my work PC, my home PC, my tablet, etc. Regardless of tracking, which I agree with you on, most all browsers want you to have some sort of account now so that you sync things between sessions on one device to another. ![]() I mean, Safari has a sync, even Firefox has a sync. I really objected to Chrome asking me to log onto Google Account EVERY SINGLE TIME. ![]()
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