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Chrome Ad Blocker with 10M+ Installs Found with Dormant Script Injection Capability

Island found dormant JavaScript injection paths in Adblock for YouTube, a Chrome extension with 10M+ installs, raising ...

YouTube ad blocker with 11 million installations with possible backdoor

Adblock for YouTube has over 11 million installations. However, it can inject script code into any page uncontrollably.
GIGAZINE

Downloading YouTube videos with yt-dlp will require the installation of a JavaScript runtime such as Deno.

As a result, the development team switched to a JavaScript-based approach. Because this JavaScript code is too complex to be executed by the JavaScript interpreter built into yt-dlp , it is now ...
GIGAZINE

Finally, to fully utilize the YouTube download function of yt-dlp, a JavaScript runtime such as Deno is required, and the installation procedure is like this

YouTube's specifications are extremely complex and change frequently. The yt-dlp development team previously supported YouTube using a method that heavily relied on regular expressions. However, in ...
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The Chrome ad blocker millions trusted may be hiding a serious browser risk

A Chrome ad blocker with more than 10 million installs has reopened an old browser security debate. The tool may work as promised, but researchers say its design leaves room for a much riskier outcome ...