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How to check that an add-on doesn't spy on you ? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Many add-ons have somewhat spookiy authorisation requirements, such as "access all of your activity". In many cases this is justified by it's function, and of course there isn't any problem with it as long as we're sure all this data stays on your computer and isn't shared with any remote server. How are we sure of that tho? Is there an easy way to check for each add-on ?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Packet sniffer? Like wireshark maybe?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But wouldn't that just tell you, "Firefox was connecting to the internet"?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, it'd give details. Combing through and decrypting those details is another matter, though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can MITM yourself and setup your own CA, no?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If you so chose to, yep.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

No, it would say which packet is being sent to which destination.