https://www.ghacks.net/2017/01/04/major-stylish-add-on-changes-in-regards-to-privacy/ There is some info about opt-out and data collection/sharing. Click through if interested.
which was enabled by default since v1.5.2, release date 4. april '16. maybe an alternative https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylrrr/ seems to work but lack of handling.
Was that when some phone home was added|enabled-by-default, when users became exposed to SimilarWeb, or both? I ask because the Announcement to the Community thread, which says: shows a date of January 3. The year isn't displayed but given that posts from last year show 2016 I'm inclined to view the announcement as having been posted on January 3 2017 (days ago). The privacy policy was also updated January 1 2017. IOW, it sounded to me as though the SimilarWeb exposure was new but that phone home (for install counts and Suggested Web Styles perhaps) goes back farther.
Thanks for starting this thread! FWIW, I've unticked the option but Stylish is really important for me.
This is a good reminder of how trusted extensions may become shady in the future. So after each extension-update you should check out all of the options.
not sure where data went since 2016 - but similarweb is now partnership i think it will also take over this older "telemetrie"
I think that is the proper way to think. In addition to references to a "partnership" (which could mean almost anything) there are other statements: which suggest that SimilarWeb literally owns the extension, website, etc at this point. As for the telemetry itself, a number of posts including this one (which appears to be from @gorhill) suggest that the telemetry in Stylish version 1.6.3 for Chrome is genuinely disturbing. Did earlier versions have the same phone home or did v1.6.3 bring significant changes? I don't have a personal interest in such details. I'm merely curious about what is a recent change and whether the recent changes and current behavior is disclosed in a sufficiently clear and unavoidable manner. If they aren't, the newer version ought to be pulled from all download sites until the developer rectifies the situation.
An alternative is "Stylus" Website / Github Releases: Chrome Web Store (or beta) Firefox add-ons Opera add-ons
"Stylish" browser extension steals all your internet history July 2, 2018 https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extension-steals-your-internet-history/
Chrome and Firefox Pull Stylish Add-On After Report It Logged Browser History July 4, 2018 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...dd-on-after-report-it-logged-browser-history/
if this would have been before it has been revealed. (not in v2 but in v3 as webextension) nevertheless stylish - in special for chromium - has become pain https://forum.userstyles.org/discus...-selectors-adjoining-classes-and-other-things but some has pointed out the new privacy policy in nov'17 https://forum.userstyles.org/discussion/61002/stylish-open-source-status-as-of-2017 and the source code is missing. guess why
Stylus sees large user increase after Stylish removal July 9, 2018 https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/09/stylus-sees-large-user-increase-after-stylish-removal/
Not so stylish, at all! --- "Since January 2017, following the sale of Stylish to SimilarWeb, the extension has contained tracking functions that sends information on all visited URLs and HTTP requests, and information contained on search engine results pages, to SimilarWeb servers. In July 2018, after these issues were publicized by a software engineer, Stylish was pulled from both Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Add-ons." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylish
I agree; since Stylus is available there's no point in using Stylish. I've been using Stylus for a while and it applies all of the Stylish themes/skins just fine.