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3 months agoIt’s an extension. It can inject scripts into the page, and change the url parameters and cookie values, which is how referrals are tracked. It’s not hardened against something you’ve given permission to do these things by voluntarily installing an extension.
fictional villians rarely hold a candle to the real-life ones but it feels like most people assume there’s some kind of cosmic force of justice balancing the scales in real life keeping them from exceeding the evils perpetrated by their fictional counterparts.