SMRTR TechJul 9, 2025Ars Technica

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

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MellowTel-js-based browser extensions, installed on nearly 1 million devices across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, are scraping websites for paying customers, potentially compromising user security by overriding protections and collecting web data.

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