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fromPCWorld
3 hours ago

Don't like Google's AI answers? Here's how to get rid of them

These AI-generated summaries have been around for months now, and their aim is to quickly give you a one-stop answer to whatever it is you're searching for. This is the same kind of AI-generated conversational response you might get from an AI chatbot like ChatGPT-and just as with ChatGPT, the answers in AI Overviews aren't always kosher. Google doesn't make it easy to disable AI Overviews in its search results, but you do have a few options if you want to avoid the AI summaries.
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fromZacks
1 week ago

Pardon Our Interruption

Browser settings (disabled JavaScript, disabled cookies, rapid navigation, or privacy plugins) can trigger anti-bot detection and block access; enable JavaScript and cookies to regain access.
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fromTechzine Global
1 month ago

AI conversations of 8 million users leaked via browser extensions

Browser extensions that promise privacy are found to be selling AI conversations from millions of users. Security researchers at Koi Security discovered that popular VPN and ad blocker extensions are secretly intercepting all conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and reselling them to data brokers. Security researcher Idan Dardikman discovered the problem after wondering if anyone could read his private conversations with AI assistants.
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fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations

Popular Chromium extensions intercept and transmit users' full AI-chat conversations to third-party endpoints for marketing and data-broker use.
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fromTheregister
1 month ago

Chrome, Edge privacy extensions quietly snarf AI chats

Four popular browser extensions covertly harvested chatbot conversation text from over eight million users by injecting scripts that intercept and exfiltrate AI chat data.
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fromTheregister
1 month ago

Browser extensions pushed malware to 4.3M Chrome, Edge users

A seven-year campaign used trusted Chrome and Edge extensions to deploy backdoors and spyware to 4.3 million users, exfiltrating data to servers in China.
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fromThe Hacker News
1 month ago

ShadyPanda Turns Popular Browser Extensions with 4.3 Million Installs Into Spyware

ShadyPanda operated a seven-year browser extension campaign that amassed over 4.3 million installs and escalated to remote code execution, data exfiltration, and affiliate fraud.
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