{"id":60,"date":"2009-04-09T20:31:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T01:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/?p=60"},"modified":"2009-04-09T20:31:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T01:31:28","slug":"ebay-highlighter-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Ebay Highlighter WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I opened Firefox today and had a new icon at the top right:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fullscreen-capture-492009-82415-pmbmp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61\" title=\"Ebay Highlighter AutoInstall?\" src=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fullscreen-capture-492009-82415-pmbmp.jpg\" alt=\"Ebay Highlighter AutoInstall?\" width=\"281\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ebay Highlighter AutoInstall?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t install the highlighter and I never saw any confirmation windows asking for permission to install it.\u00a0 Has anyone else had the Ebay Highlighter Auto Install \/ Install Itself \/ Magically appear?\u00a0 I had to Google to find out what it was, it &#8220;lets you highlight different products in Firefox or Internet Explorer and compare the pricing of those products on eBay.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/09\/29\/exclusive-ebay-launches-browser-highlighter-to-compare-pricing-make-skype-calls\/\">Tech Crunch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last thing I need is additional addons\/plugins installing themselves in Firefox!\u00a0 Anybody else get a confirmation or dialog?\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;m just special?<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><!--Session data--><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I opened Firefox today and had a new icon at the top right: I didn&#8217;t install the highlighter and I never saw any confirmation windows asking for permission to install it.\u00a0 Has anyone else had the Ebay Highlighter Auto Install \/ Install Itself \/ Magically appear?\u00a0 I had to Google to find out what it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23],"tags":[26,25],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebay","category-scams","tag-crapware","tag-magic-installer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}