A Chrome extension titled "Hide YouTube Shorts," used by 100,000 people, was discovered to secretly collect users' browser activity.
  • QuacksalberEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Just to give a little bit of context, shorts can natively played as videos by replacing the www.youtube.com/shorts/[…} url with www.youtube.com/watch?v=[…], so a simple url replacer will do as well.