“The Great Suspender” Chrome extension maintainer is probably malicious

• thegreatsuspender-notrack

  18 1,262 0.0 JavaScript

  A chrome extension for suspending all tabs to free up memory, privacy-oriented with no analytics tracking.

I did the work of downloading a forked version [1] of the extension and disabling the mainline extension.

In doing so, I lost about 60 suspended tabs, with no record in history as to what they were.

In some ways, this is like a weight off my back. On the other hand, I was going to read those tabs, I swear!

Oh well, time for me to search jstor for a history of copper mine consolidation, again.

[1] https://github.com/aciidic/thegreatsuspender-notrack

• opensnitch

  213 9,652 9.2 Python

  OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

However, if you allow everything to 80/443, the extensions would still be able to connect to their servers. Maybe the browsers should add the ability to allow/deny connections per extension.

https://github.com/gustavo-iniguez-goya/opensnitch/issues/21

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• thegreatsuspender

  108 5,027 0.0 JavaScript

  A chrome extension for suspending all tabs to free up memory

• Platform

  30 91 9.9 JavaScript

  Qbix Platform for powering Social Apps (http://qbix.com/platform) (by Qbix)

  

I mean, I believe it so strongly, I put years and reinvested tons of profits of my own company into an open source platform that would be an alternative to Facebook / LinkedIn / Google etc. (https://github.com/Qbix/Platform) We still have a long way to go, but I think just like the Web unleashed trillions in value that could never be built on top of AOL, we will see the same with Web 2.0 (FAMGA) etc.

But it will take time. Open source collaboration is the tortoise, closed source competition is the hare.

• NanoCore

  15 477 5.1

  Discontinued An adblocker

  

Yes, and definitely. Here's an example from the NanoBlock vs uBlock Origin controversy where cookies and private data were being harvested

https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoCore/issues/362#issueco...

Assume that any time an app has privilege to access your data, they are going to do it either deliberately or accidentally.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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