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This tool is capturing your screen just FYI

Open AlexandruSimandi opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

Have a look https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/commit/f4e79484177571fab284723188e9e57dde48e3e5

AlexandruSimandi avatar Feb 04 '21 18:02 AlexandruSimandi

I had warned others about this back in May of last year -- https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1147

I am hearing rumblings that the developer is being paid by a third party to integrate a closed-source library that tracks user data in the latest release, hence the intrusive "UPDATE NOW" push. I'll be removing this extension post-haste.

mike9k1 avatar Feb 04 '21 18:02 mike9k1

is this exactly the code that makes screenshots? gsCleanScreencaps Required IP addresses are sent data

f1h0 avatar Feb 04 '21 18:02 f1h0

I believe it seems this extension has become malicious, but isn't this particular issue just a part of the core functionality? It takes a screenshot of the webpage to display while it is suspended.

flipperbw avatar Feb 04 '21 18:02 flipperbw

You can turn it off & on from the settings UI .. Let me check the code if this is turns on & off.

Chrome flagged it and took it off for me

inkhsutesou avatar Feb 04 '21 18:02 inkhsutesou

So does it turn it off ?

stanlrt avatar Feb 04 '21 21:02 stanlrt

In thegreatsuspender there is a mode to take a screenshot, it is implemented as a function it can be disabled the question is whether this function is completely disabled

f1h0 avatar Feb 05 '21 05:02 f1h0