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Wispy2891@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

Is Firefox promoting malware in their extensions page?

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Is Firefox promoting malware in their extensions page?

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Wispy2891@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.world · 6 months ago
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Link is this: https://addons.mozilla.org/it/android/addon/get-tamper-monkey/

How can feature something like that?

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    Huh? Do you know what tamper monkey even is? It’s simply just a JS injector you can do even with the dev tools with the regular browser now with no extensions installed. This extension simply automates this process and is extensively used for modding browser based games. It’s not malware or for malicious use in and of itself.

    Edit: it’s the name squatting “Tamper monkey” versus the official “Tampermonkey” extension

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      The extension entry that OP is talking about seems to be pretending to be Tampermonkey, when it’s not.

      This is the real Tampermonkey: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/

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        Oh wow that’s a good catch I didn’t even notice it at first. Thanks!

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          That’s how they get ya!

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          It’s also my fault for the misunderstanding because I posted without full explanation

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      You are discussing https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/

      The screenshot is discussing https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/get-tamper-monkey/

      I haven’t been able to find any official reference to the latter so it’s plausibly impersonating the real thing.

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