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vtoubiana / TrackMeNot

An artware browser add-on to protect privacy in web-search. By issuing randomized queries to common search-engines, TrackMeNot obfuscates your search profile(s) and registers your discontent with surreptitious tracking.
http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Removed from chrome store for containing malware #139

Open darmanilink opened 2 years ago

darmanilink commented 2 years ago

Is this legit, or is this just google doing google things because they're losing revenue due to this

BeefMarinade commented 2 years ago

I was surprised to see a browser pop up that said TrackMeNot was somehow malware after I Brave auto-updated itself. This happened 10 minutes ago for me. I hope the TMN team can issue a tweet statement about this.

cyberpunkrocker-zero commented 2 years ago

Brave blocked it, but it is still working on Firefox.

cirtbrethren commented 2 years ago

I've had this extension running for over ten years with no problem, now suddenly it's malware? How can I override Chrome's blocking of this?

nicholasburka commented 2 years ago

i'd like to weigh in that as @cirtbrethren notes, there have been no sudden changes to the codebase, and Google has a history of blocking these kind of projects as malware (like AdNauseum, made by some of the same researchers)

nicholasburka commented 2 years ago

also see the official statement here: http://trackmenot.io/googleban.html