Detects Stylish for spyware, if you are installing, remove it immediately

Stylish is an extension or add-on that changes the look of the website to be more boring and more personalized. But according to the latest finding, the extension is helping spyware to track every website.

According to Robert Heaton, a software engineer, all browsing activities and user identification information are sent to its servers by StylishWeb, which is included in a profile by SimilarWeb, the owner of Stylish.

For users who have created a Stylish account on the userstyles.org page, SimilarWeb can easily grasp the entire browsing history with full information about email addresses, login information, actual identity information via cookies. log in.

Stylish was developed with the original purpose of helping users personalize web pages or see but when it was sold to SimilarWeb - an Internet data analysis company in 2017, the purpose was changed. They added a spyware to collect user data. And with the huge data that Stylish has 2 million users, the benefits that SimilarWeb earns are also significant.

Google and Firefox have removed Stylish on their extension / add-on repositories so if you are using this utility, you should remove it now.

Following the advice of security researchers, users should not use extensions that have a highly customizable website interface because they will require deep access to your browsing activity. And don't believe the developers too because they will probably change the use value of the extension.

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