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The "Stylish" browser add-on collected and recorded all the activities of its users. Google, Mozilla and Opera have now blocked the extension.
Popular with over two million downloads, the Stylish Browser add-on has collected all activity in its user's browser and sent it back to its own servers with a Unique ID. Google, Mozilla and Opera have now removed the extension for their browsers from their online shops, [i] Ars Technica [/i].
Software developer Robert Heaton recently discovered the practices of expansion. He also referred to an article by BleepingComputer which in early 2017 indicates the change of ownership of SimilarWeb, a provider of web badytics and data mining services, as well as its privacy policy. This includes the evaluation of data in anonymous form.
With the browser add-on, you can customize the look of websites according to your wishes and download various templates for bulky websites. In addition, Robert Heaton was an avid user of the extension, but found in a detailed survey that every visited site and all Google search results was sent with a unique identifier to userstyles.org, a SimilarWeb site .
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