Re: Stylish plugin

Hi Alastair,

Thank you for letting us know. It is a good idea to use generic wording in
the technique as it could be a maintenance nightmare trying to keep up with
vendors. I can update GitHub and the Wiki (probably tomorrow).

Thanks again.

Kindest Regards,
Laura

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 4:12 AM Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
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> Just in case your browser hasn’t disabled it already, the Stylish pluggin
> is up to no good:
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> https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extension-steals-your-internet-history/
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> My Firefox already disabled the plugin without any action on my part, I’ve
> disable it and installed the one Ashley Bischoff suggested:
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> https://twitter.com/handcoding/status/1014278717357613063
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> It is functionally very similar, and has a much better privacy statement.
> That’s not a guarantee obviously, but people are checking these things now
> and it’s getting harder for them to get away with dodgy behaviour.
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> If there are places in the documentation where we mention stylish it would
> be good to update that, I suggest we use a general phrase such as “a
> user-styles browser pluggin” rather than naming a specific one.
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> Kind regards,
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> -Alastair
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