A new tool turns otherwise legitimate extensions for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox into bots that make your browser someone else's tool, and gets them paid in the process.

To name a few use cases where Puppeteer provides the perfect functionalities for web developers, Generate PDFs and screenshots of web pages Automate form submission Scrape web pages ...

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said ...