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[โ€“] slazer2au@lemmy.world 37 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Ok.... They do seem to be fear mongering a bit.

By their own evidence it only collects browser plugins for chromium based browsers. There forward implies it scans your entire PC.

As always stop using chromium based browsers to avoid this.

[โ€“] Linearity@piefed.zip 9 points 16 hours ago

Firefox based browsers also have persistent IDs for addons, does Firefox do something different to stop this?