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Pavithran S
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(((Arthur Schiwon)))
@Pavthran a research team of a state media station found out that browser history profiles of > 3 mio Germans are being offered somewhere in the Internet, even live data.

This data is collected by browser extensions. It was revealed that one of the exentions selling that data is WOT (Web of Trust). Apparently it really has a big amount of users – i would have never guessed, this was already shady when i heard about it years ago.

Probably there are other extensions selling that data, but which? A comment on another German news magazin suspects Ghostery, because it is driven by an American company related to ads.