I've developed a few browser extensions, and every week I receive numerous emails with "revenue offer". Some experienced developers know that offers like these will inject malware into the browsers of your users, but scammers who make these offers will not tell you about it. They offer "integrations" that don't look so suspicious. Imagine how many developers have accepted these offers. Then look at the number of extensions in your browser and think about how much risk there is that you have an extension with malware.
  • edric@lemm.ee
    34·
    1 year ago

    This is more about developers carelessly integrating 3rd party code into their extension without verifying if it’s malicious. People should be able to spot this if it’s a widely reviewed open source extension. At the end of the day, you have to make sure you trust the developer that they have sound programming skills and decent security knowledge to not be duped into adding code from an untrusted source just because of an offer for income.

  • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy people, this post literally showed up five times in a row on my feed across 5 different subs. How do I fix that?

    • I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social
      21·
      1 year ago

      Hopefully one day we’ll have smart clients which will optionally merge posts and underlying comments with common titles / URLs

    • JohnEdwa@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Currently you don’t.
      The real underlying issue for this all is that the “Hot” sorting algorithm Lemmy (and Kbin) uses is terrible - if someone posts the same thing in 5 different big & popular (i.e “hot”) communities at the same time, there’s a good chance you’ll see all those five posts all next to each other on your feed even if one has 100 votes and the others have 30 - note how they are all “6 hours ago”.

    • El Barto@lemmy.world
      36·
      1 year ago

      Five different subs or communities?

      Edit: sorry, I didn’t mean to be pedantic. In my mind, I was asking “five different communities or instances”?