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for that, you can use ublock. Little Rat can block any traffic originating from a chrome extension. That includes content scripts injected by extensions into webpages, but not sites that you loaded.

I see. That’s pretty good. So, now the attack surface is reduced to the extension author exfiltrating data via burner domains that aren’t blocked by ublock, but that are explicitly added to legitimate web sites.

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