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Episode: 3103
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Title: HPR3103: A warning about browser extensions and add-ons.
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3103/hpr3103.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 16:47:31
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3103 for Wednesday, 24 June 2020. Today's show is entitled,
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a warning about browser extensions and add-ons. It is hosted by Ken Farlon,
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and is about two minutes long, and carries a clean flag. The summary is
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a un-maintained extension lead to a pop-up storm.
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This episode of HPR is brought to you by archive.org.
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Support universal access to all knowledge by heading over to archive.org forward slash donate.
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Hi everybody, my name is Ken Farlon, and you're listening to another episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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I was discussing this with Dave, and he said I should do a show about it, so therefore I'll do a show about it.
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Over the last two days I've had a situation where I've been opening some tabs in Chromium,
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and then as well as the domain that I'm trying to open up,
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opening some adult sites also open in new tabs or as pop-ups, which was a bit concerning.
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Reminiscents are back in the days with Internet Explorer 6, etc.
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What's happening in Firefox? I cleared cash, and I thought it might be cash poisoning or something.
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So today, it seemed to be just on Gmail sites, but today it's actually extended to any domain that I typed in.
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After investigating, I thought that perhaps it might be a browser plugin.
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So I turned off all the browser plugins, and the problem went away,
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and then it was a matter of finding out which browser plugin it was,
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and it turned out to be a browser plugin called AutoRefresh,
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which has since disappeared from the App Store, and was happily continuing to work away on my PC.
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So I've now disabled all the browser plugins that I've added,
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except those that I know are maintained and updated,
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and I guess I need to check those regularly, so a bit of a word of warning there for people.
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June and tomorrow for another exciting episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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