Such modules are called browser extensions or add-ons. What are browser extensions? How secure are they? How bad can it get if someone with nefarious intent creates a malicious add-on?īrowsers can be customized by installing small modules that extend their functionality. Let’s leave Mallory and his evil little project alone for a while, and let’s try to understand the bigger picture.
He thought he could craft a similar browser extension, and somehow trick Alice into installing it. It was a concept browser extension called the Cursed Chrome. One of them presented him with an idea of how to compromise Alice’s defenses. He was also an avid reader of hacking forums.
Mallory was not only taking cues from sat-navs and literature. And he told himself that nosiness wasn’t actually a vice. Of course, that is immoral and illegal, but he had once read that all’s fair in love and war. In order to do that, he would need to tap into their communications, he thought. He just needed to know the perfect moment to make his move. Mallory assumed that it was bound to fail. That last bit of advice would also be useful in regards to his attempts to win Alice over.Īlice and Bob were still practicing a long-distance relationship. It helped him during elections ( keep left at the fork), and when he was thinking about becoming a lion tamer ( stay in your lane). You may think that taking advice from a sat-nav is stupid, but Mallory did it all the time. His sat-nav kept repeating continue straight, which he interpreted as the universe telling him to continue his pursuit. But Mallory was also as easy to reverse as an oil tanker, so he decided to plow ahead. She defended herself well with VPN and TLS, and she remembered to use a private window as well. Mallory was quite tired of his failed attempts to melt Alice’s heart. TL DR: skip to the conclusions to see what Alice learned.
It's also noticeably faster than the Opera browser combined with various ad blocking extensions.īy blocking ads, you also block the source of many tracking cookies.Mallory tries to create a browser extension that will let him spy on Alice. This all happens "under the hood", so all you'll see is how much faster webpages load.Īccording to our tests, Opera loads content-rich pages up to 90% faster with ad blocking enabled. Our Ad blocker "catches" ads as early as possible, right in the engine, when you first request a webpage. You can easily unblock ads on any website, if you want. No installation and setup required, just enable ad blocking in the browser settings. Opera's Ad blocker is built right into the browser.
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