![]() User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/.116 Safari/537.36 GET /gp/bit/apps/web/SIA/scraper?url= HTTP/1.1 It reports to Amazon every URL you visit, even HTTPS URLs. Unfortunately, this request goes over HTTPS, so only Amazon can know your URLs. It's against what they claim in their Privacy Policy: You might want to look at Firefox version of the extension though (hint, hint). Information about the websites you view, but that information is notĪssociated with your Amazon account or identified with you. So called SIA feature of the extension is just that:Ĭ(function(tabId, changeInfo, tab) )(window,document) Sends a lot of my Amazon cookies, doesn't it? But that's just a start. So it's just like a ninja sent to every house that just awaits for further orders. It reports contents of certain websites you visit to Alexa Who knows what sites are modified, maybe it depends on your location, Amazon ID etc. Origin: chrome-extension://pbjikboenpfhbbejgkoklgkhjpfogcam For example, your Google searches over HTTPS, and a few first results are now known to Alexa as well. Here's exemplary Google search and a view of what's sent over the proxy. Notice that the URL and extracted page information travels over HTTP to. So in man-in-the-middle attackers can access the information that extension is configured to send to Alexa. The real problem though is that attackers can actively exploit describedĮxtension features to hijack your information, e.g. Extension dynamically configures itself by fetching information from Amazon. Namely, upon installation (and then periodically) it requests and processes two config files.If your Amazon Firestick is acting up, you might have installed too many apps. Since the Amazon Fire TV Stick only has 8GB storage space, this wouldn’t be surprising. To free up some space and get your device working like new, here’s how to uninstall apps on your Firestick. To uninstall apps on your Firestick, go to Settings > Applications > Manage Installed Applications. Then select an app that you want to remove, and select Uninstall. Launch your Firestick and select Settings from the top menu.įinally, click Uninstall again when yous see the pop-up warning screen.You can access the top menu by clicking up (the top of the big circle) on your Firestick remote. Then click the right button (the right side of the big circle on the remote) to move to Settings. You have to click the down button (the bottom of the big circle) on your remote to access the Settings options. ![]()
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