tl;dr Add-on developer ansh sold out the extension to new owners. Commited updates 1.8.8 to the Mozilla repository, but nothing on GitHub containing the malware. The malware was a custom implementation of the mellowtel scraper mentioned in the arstechnica article. It had the opt-in functionality disabled and other “bugs” which caused excessive bandwidth usage. Please be aware there is no independent verification whether not more possible harm was caused than the mentioned mellowtel scraping.

By jiffyreader, the from the github link provided:

"Hey all,

Sorry for the delay in answering here. I was waiting for the dust to settle a little bit before clearing things up.

I tried to explain the timeline and sequence of actions in the last messages. Many of you want to know the reasons behind them.

I saw that developers were earning a lot from turning their products into proxies for scraping and were being paid by proxy providers like anyIP or brightdata. Usually they pay more for mobile proxies. So I decided to try a similar idea. I saw that Jiffy Reader had already tried with mellowtel but had stopped after a while. I thought I could monetize it by making a custom integration and bought the plugin. I tried the open source version of mellowtel but changed the code in order to make it native (refer to the Single Purpose policy issue above) and removed some of the limits in the library. In the process I introduced bugs and caused issues to a lot of you which triggered the malware report. The reason why these bugs were not immediately clear and I couldn’t solve them is because they showed up based on some specific requests/websites (google search or pdf download, etc.) and device conditions (pdf viewer open/scrolling a tab with videos) which I didn’t have a way to replicate and solve.

As I remarked before, the plugin didn’t steal any cookies/credit cards/password or personal data and you can check the network output logs or any VPN logs to confirm. You are still free to change passwords/auth sessions but JiffyReader didn’t collect or leak any of this personal information.

Ideally, I wanted to keep the product running/improving it and using this forked version for monetization without affecting users negatively. But in my eagerness to have the version accepted by the review team I changed the code to not display the opt-in and out page immediately and that removed a lot of user control. And I think I introduced some bugs (but from an arstechnica article that @concernedcitizen2 has also linked it looks like the original library had some issues on its own, so it could also be due to that).

For GDPR, I haven’t collected any data from this bandwidth sharing monetization (including IPs which I don’t store). The privacy policy on the website refers to google analytics, to the Crisp web chat and to any contact information the user might pass to us. The public pages that were scraped didn’t have to do anything with the websites a user might be visiting. The same goes for Meucci.js which just monitored xhr/ajax requests INSIDE the session-less frame, not outside, so again it didn’t revolve around any user data. You can look at the mellowtel library since I used a lot of that code

Sorry for the issues and concerns I’ve caused with these actions.

I will be committing all changes to this repo and removing all the flawed forked code. I will also send a new version for the same to FireFox, Edge and Chrome again. Going forward, I will always keep the open-source version in sync with the submitted version.

If anyone wants to reach out, you can do at jiffyreader007@gmail.com. I feel like it’s not good to keep this discussion on this repo and I’ve created a separate Discord in the meanwhile: https://discord.gg/cjwS8vmR3R

I’m really sorry for this and having removed a useful plugins that so many people used. Thanks for your understanding."

Here is the full list of extensions: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vT1XgBs25gRlg5e3nYCAff967WMtZZTO-TB3rR9zszaJpTpCVFg8j7FkBxnHb3tw3aHGjKBGSxYyLgV/pubhtml?pli=1

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The Deep Fake Detector probably can’t keep up anymore with the recent AI advances.

It is overlooked because filesharing gets you into trouble and Plex is for various reasons the much more evolved alternative.

There is the psychological factor that Windows behaves more like malware with their forced full screen overlays to shove the Edge into your ass. Over and over again. Microsoft doesn’t take No for an answer like an abusive partner.

No, because the headline has no information on what it is. And when I opened the site indeed it is devoid of informational content.

Hate the clickbait article naming. Downvoted.

It doesn’t if you pay for it.

Not quite correct. They didn’t start charging for API usage. They banned it and pretended it could be paid for with completely absurd prices nobody could reasonably afford.

Go to the outer status page. The router should display whether it has an internet connection to your provider. If no, then your router/modem has no credentials or another issue preventing access.

If it shows as working, then you can narrow it down to incorrect DNS and IP routing. Perhaps dynamic IP allocation is set to off or another configuration error or bug, in which case you might need to reset all the router settings. Then, is it only broken for a single end device?

Is it used to share OCH links?

Doubt it as they will get buried anyways. Forums should be more common and even they autolock threads. At some point in time you have to reframe the content into the current cultural context.

Soulseek is Peer To Peer like a torrent. You will likely run into legal trouble, if that program is monitored more heavily.

What a horrible way to handle this. A bit like YouTube demonetization policies.

The good news is it is stable and healthy with that amount.

Bullshit. Piracy is the only thing preserving it. Why? Because as a PC user 4k HDR Blu-Rays are forbidden for me anyways to play legally despite owning them.

Barely anybody uses all of the features, but one might be enough or the person is used to the UI. It still is not helpful and slightly unfriendly to assume the person doesn’t know what they need. Like when I ask for Excel, then I mean it. I don’t need a markdown table or the Word “Insert Table” feature.

I would also like to add Windows Photo and Microsoft Paint. /s Please stop giving “alternatives” when these do not even closely match the featureset of a given application unless asked for advice.

Yeah, my sleep schedule is pretty bad since the holiday… Oh, Oooooh.