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craigmi on July 31, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: It is easy to expose users' secret web habits, say...

i had to dns sinkhole requests to pixel.intenta.io that a browser extension was creating, every site site I visited was sent along in an ajax request to this domain.

Couldn't isolate what extension it was.

tyingq on July 31, 2017 | [–]

Someone else noticed the "page refresh" chrome extension making requests to that domain: https://frenchcoding.com/2015/11/12/faites-attention-aux-ext...

anc84 on July 31, 2017 | [–]

> Couldn't isolate what extension it was.

How not? Disabling them in a bisecting way should be a couple of minutes.

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