Browser Extensions and AI Jailbreaking

Date: 08/01/2025

WeAreDevelopers Live 08/01/2025

Recording

Resources and notes

• Holidays downturn
  • When the world logs off: Christmas, New Year’s, and the Internet’s holiday rhythm
• Meta changes:
  • Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a ‘community notes’ system similar to X
  • UFC boss Dana White joining Meta’s board of directors
  • Trump says Meta has ‘come a long way’ after Zuckerberg ends fact-checking on platforms
  • Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term
  • Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White
  • Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months
  • Meta’s fact-checking changes are just what Trump’s FCC head asked for
  • Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them
  • Meta surrenders to the right on speech
  • Trump says Meta has ‘come a long way’ after Zuckerberg ends fact-checking on platforms
• Meta’s social media filled with AI-generated users and backlash
  • FT Article
  • Meta’s AI-ge)nerated bot profiles are not being received well
  • Meta Opens Floodgates For AI-Generated Accounts On Facebook, Instagram
  • Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies
  • Meta’s AI Profiles Are Indistinguishable From Terrible Spam That Took Over Facebook
• Bing or Google?
  • Microsoft is using Bing to trick people into thinking they’re on Google
• Honey extension
  • Honey notes
  • Why the Honey Extension Is Being Called the Biggest Influencer Scam of All Time
  • YouTuber LegalEagle sues PayPal over ‘sleeping leech’ Honey extension
  • Google Chrome: legit EditThisCookie extension removed instead of malicious copycat
  • Hackers hijack a wide range of companies’ Chrome extensions, experts say
  • YouTuber Marques Brownlee Addresses Honey Scam Allegations As $5 Million Lawsuit Rocks PayPal-Owned Extension
  • Time to check if you ran any of these 33 malicious Chrome extensions
• AI and Websearch
  • ChatGPT vs Google
  • The rise of the AI crawler
• GitHub Contribution chart is overrated and easy to game
  • Bassem’s Tweet
  • Gaming the GitHub contribution chart
  • 4.5m fake GitHub Stars
• Death of the stubborn developer
  • Death of the stubborn developer
• Prompting Fundamentals and How to Apply them Effectively
  • Prompting fundamentals
• Tool - HTML DeCrapulator
  • HTML DeCrapulator
• Being a Developer in the Age of Reasoning AI
  • Developer in the Age of Reasoning AI
• trimMiddle()
  • Middle text overflow in Finder
  • trimmiddle
• AI jailbreaking
  • Different spelling to work around AI safeguards
  • Narrative Jailbreaking
• Open source maintenance:
  • A letter to open-source maintainers
  • Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

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