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What do people here think about the movie web app extension? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I guess most people know about the movie web app site, which pulls videos from various sources.

Recently they added a request to download an extension to your browser, for optimal perfomance and better quality.

It is featured on the firefox android extensions site from Mozilla, it has a github page. What I read online is that it seems the extension wants access to everything you do in your browser, which seems kind of sketchy.

What do people here think about it? Anyone installed it and can say more?

Edit: thanks for all the comments, looks like less people knew about this than I thought.

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I don't know what you mean by the movie web app site, but yeah that extension does sound dodgy. "Optimal performance and better quality" sounds like something a spyware vendor would say to try and get people to download, I can't think of any valid technical reason a browser extension would enable functionality beyond that which the browser already has.

[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't think websites can do web scraping.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Haven't you heard of search engines? ;p

[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's not the website doing web scraping, it's the server. This is likely the reason.

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