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The web browser extension "Stylish" steals all your browsing history. The change happened after the project had been sold several times and the latest set of owners have supplemented the otherwise very useful code with surveillance capabilities start around January 2017. Currently it aggregates profiles on its users based on their complete browsing activities. The extension's user base had been about 2 million prior to this news.
Before it became a covert surveillance tool disguised as an outstanding browser extension, Stylish really was an outstanding browser extension.
[...] Unfortunately, since January 2017, Stylish has been augmented with bonus spyware that records every single website that I and its 2 million other users visit.
Related: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472948
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/2-million-users-impacted-by-new-data-collection-policy-in-stylish-browser-add-on/
[Both Google and Mozilla have blocked Stylish as an extension at this point. An alternative extension Stylus was created from the last known version of the extension from the original author. -Ed]
[Update: 20180706_115313 UTC] Per a comment to this story, there is a replacement for stylish available for Pale Moon:
Stylus fork mentioned in TFS is a WebExtension, and old versions of Stylish were also taken down, so finding and installing it would require manual intervention, and searching for last-known-good version.
Luckily, one of the Pale Moon developers created a compatible XUL-based fork, Stylem [palemoon.org] (release thread [palemoon.org]). It directly imports all Stylish userstyles, so just disable Stylish, enable Stylem, restart browser, and that's it. Worked without a hitch.
Earlier on SN: Stylish and Userstyles.org Having Corruption Issues (2016)
(Score: 5, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday July 05 2018, @03:23AM (8 children)
NCommander and matt_ both hold an equal number of shares in the PBC. The staff and the board decided way back when to issue shares to our two major debt holders rather than keep debt on the books. Not that the outstanding shares mean a whole lot, mind you. The board currently consists only of NCommander and matt_ since mrcoolbp resigned for personal reasons last year. So the shareholders aren't exactly going to be bossing the board around.
All of that except mrcoolbp resigning was public knowledge. We were going to try to fill the empty seat and then announce the change but nobody on staff could be convinced, browbeaten, or tortured into agreeing to take it. Then we got sidetracked and forgot.
So, yeah, we're technically obligated to please our shareholders. But since our shareholders are also the board and NCommander is also the COO (read as: gets the final say on coding, admining, and site vision), we've been doing that all along.
All that aside... we primarily have to please the community on account of not having folks willing to pay the current bills would be a bad thing. Especially me though, cause I'll fucking riot [youtube.com] if we get our priorities out of whack.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday July 05 2018, @03:29AM (5 children)
+1 interesting, +1 insightful, and +1 informative
(Also. -1 offtopic, but appropriate response)
The board should vote you a raise. Would 200% be adequate?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday July 05 2018, @03:40AM (1 child)
Isn't *after* he implements the "super-mega-ultra tracking system for SN" a more appropriate moment to talk about raises?
yes, I realize that 200% raise lets him the same, but I wouldn't want to encourage him feeling more entitled than he is now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday July 05 2018, @05:02AM
Hang the entitlement!
Let's make it 2,000%
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday July 05 2018, @04:41AM
200% of nill = 0. So WTF?
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday July 05 2018, @04:49AM (1 child)
TMB and I don't always agree on polyticks, but we're both fishermen so like some of my other IRL fishing buddies, we can jost each other over over how the country should be run and still have a great time fishing.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday July 05 2018, @06:20AM
Truth. A fella gotta have his priorities. Fishing is way, way above politics in my list with the possible exceptions of fishing regulations and license fees.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05 2018, @03:37AM (1 child)
"Then we got sidetracked and forgot."
I've always been a fan of "oooh, shiny" approach to corporate management :)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday July 05 2018, @06:23AM
That kinda thing happens when you get a bunch of code monkeys and nerds of various other stripes running the nuthouse. I have yet to meet a decent coder who didn't have at least some very ADHD-like tendencies.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.