• abbadon420@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Here’s the plan. You write an extension for chrome that makes chrome think all traffic from [cryptominingcentral.com] is actually from *.google.com. Make folks install the plugin via the tried and tested methods like phishing. … profit

    • authorinthedark@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 months ago

      couldn’t you do that anyway if you can get people to install an extension? taking advantage of this for crypto mining purposes feels like extra steps