Author: Justin Pot / Source: howtogeek.com
Stylish, a browser extension with two million users, has been monitoring your browsing history for over a year.
Stylish was once a great way to remove annoying features from websites—trending topics on Facebook, say, or that annoying bar that follows you as you scroll on Medium.
To do this Stylish, the browser extension, needs access to every website you visit.RELATED: Browser Extensions Are a Privacy Nightmare: Stop Using So Many of Them
Which is why SimilarWeb, an analytics company, purchashed Stylish in 2017. SimilarWeb had no interest in customizing websites; it only wanted access to a browser extension with extensive permissions—to add a little spyware and access all of that delicious data directly.
Here’s Robert Heaton, writing on his personal…
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