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- One of them would occasionally advertise the author's other extensions when new or updated, either with a weird in-page popup notification or a video announcement on YouTube, which it would hijack the current tab or create and focus a new one for to show.

Looks like pocket tube, I see, "https://p.yousub.info/referral" mentions in the extension. I can fully comprehend Giphy's tracking code, but pocket tube's eludes me.

I have started a Github repo to try and report to report them, but I only have time for Giphy for now. [1] Plus I have not done this sort of thing before. Any pointers are very appreciated.

[1]: https://github.com/ColoursofOSINT/extensions-investigation



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