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I no longer trust The Great Suspender

dafoster.net published 2021-01-202 min read

I know a number of folks use The Great Suspender to automatically suspend inactive browser tabs in Chrome. Apparently recent versions of this extension have been taken over by a shady anonymous entity and is now flagged by Microsoft as malware . Notably the most recent version of the extension (v7.1.8) has added…
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