Re: Another Firefox plugin with spyware?

[robert_mcmillan () idg com]

Suddenly this plugin has a privacy policy and is sandboxed.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591

> While checking out FF plugins for twitter today, I came across the
> following comment wrt Power Twitter 1.38;
>
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>
> Cool addon, but...
>
> ever had a look inside?
>
> I did this morning, while trying to find out why one of the images in a
> tweet wasn't properly replaced (it just dissapeared). I found this call
at
> startup:
>
> http://powertwitter.me/req.php?
> agent=firefox&action=userPage&version=1.38&&sViewingUser=&sLoggedInUser=
> [me]&sViewingUser=&sLoggedInUser=[meagain]&ptPrefEX=off&ptPrefRM=off
>
> That, along that half of the code is downloaded after this call. More
than
> that, link replacement also happens in the network:
>
> http://linkmapper.codingsocial.com/map.powertwitter/?
> action=parseLink&version=1.38&format=json&linkNumber=26&url=[someURI]
>
> I don't know if you do, I don't like being tracked without my knowledge.
>
> Rated 1 out of 5 stars by Ric on April 20, 2010
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