mikeecb

I changed the Chromium browser (as a masters project) to intercept suspicious extension actions like inserting elements etc and to alert users of what the extension is attempting to do. Using this proof-of-concept browser would have helped you debug your ad injection problem!

https://cypher.codes/writing/intercepting-suspicious-chrome-...

- Note: my project specifically tries to protect users from Facebook hijacking and ad injection attacks - the two most common attacks on the CWS!

They've made efforts to make it more isolated though [1]. It seems like Firefox isn't going in this direction.

[1]: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/site-is...

One of the reasons the Chrome browser uses one process per tab is so that memory between web-pages is isolated. By doing this, an attacker in control of a renderer process cannot read data from another renderer process (web-page).

It seems like Firefox has made a security / memory tradeoff here since renderer processes can render multiple (4 by default) web-pages at a time.

The website claims to have 25k users [1].

[1]: https://pinboard.in/tour/

"rm -rf / - make computer faster" - so evil

But the cost of incorporating is really tiny isn't it (£15 in the UK where I live)? And I'm thinking about what users think seeing an app created by a person vs a company