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How to reduce the enshittification on various services.

( eg: Payment sites instead of Apps, Ads in Facebook site - I rarely use FB )

Any browser addons, scripts are welcome.

  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Be veeeeeery wary of browser addons. They gain access to the data of every web page. Can monitor keystrokes, etc. so… usernames, passwords, bank accounts. How hard would it be for a developer to maliciously add code that is distributed to thousands of devices?

    Pretty easy if you ask XZ

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

    • logging_strict@lemmy.ml
      0·
      7 months ago

      this is shamelessly spreading FUD. The XZ issue has been resolved and was resolved very quickly. The author is a hero.