Google and Microsoft Pull ModHeader With 1.6 Million Installs After Dormant Collector Found [email protected] (The Hacker News)

Google and Microsoft have pulled ModHeader, a popular header-editing extension with roughly 1.6 million installs across Chrome and Edge, after researchers found a hidden browsing-history collector built into its official store version.

The collector was dormant. An empty allow-list kept it switched off, and no proof has emerged that it ever gathered or sent a single browsing domain.

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