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Alexa Toolbar: Give your full browsing history, so it can get free statistics
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ffpip
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ffpip
on Sept 16, 2020
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It exists for Chrome and Firefox. It has access to all sites you visit, and collects everything you do.
Over 600,000 Chromium users have it installed.
hn_1234
on Sept 16, 2020
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What made them to install this ?
ffpip
on Sept 16, 2020
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They don't actually know how much this is collecting. It advertises other features like site rank
https://i.imgur.com/qfitydx.png
byoung2
on Sept 16, 2020
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Whoa are browser toolbars still a thing? I thought they became irrelevant over a decade ago
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Over 600,000 Chromium users have it installed.