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Happened in (2021)[ https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1... ], and then a few others have forked the extension and tried to revive it, only to eventually sell to nefarious owners or sell user data themselves

comment by MatthewBF · 2024-02-11 · in The Great Suspender once again contains malware

Better link https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1... > TLDR: The old maintainer appears to have sold the extension to parties unknown, who have malicious intent to exploit the users of this extension in advertising…

comment by SenHeng · 2022-06-03 · in Rejecting data demands, ExpressVPN removes VPN servers in India

See https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

comment by ar_lan · 2022-06-02 · in Rejecting data demands, ExpressVPN removes VPN servers in India

The Great Suspender: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

comment by jakopo87 · 2021-07-05 · in Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner

…causes people like the author of The Great Suspender to sell out and betray the trust of everyone. https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1... I believe that uBlock Origin fundamentally cannot be monetized without…

comment by nonbirithm · 2021-04-07 · in Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

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The Great Suspender Chrome extension sold and converted to malware/adware

story by soared · 2021-02-07 · 0 comments

…me to restore the lost tabs into an older (safe) version of TGS 7.1.6 which Google can't kill ;) https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

comment by krasi0 · 2021-02-05 · in Google disables the Great Suspender Chrome Extension for containing malware

…for example)? Thank God I have Session Buddy to kinda limit the damage! Read more here [0]! [0]: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/5...

comment by nikolay · 2021-02-05 · in Google disables the Great Suspender Chrome Extension for containing malware

One workaround here (haven't tested it): https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

comment by zerd · 2021-02-04 · in The Great Suspender has been flagged as malware, removed from Chrome Web Store

Related discussions: - https://www.reddit.com/r/KyleTaylor/comments/jowlt2/open_sou... - https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues and the forks do not wait.. https://github.com/aciidic/thegreatsuspender-notrack

comment by joseluisq · 2021-02-04 · in The Great Suspender pulled from Chrome after being flagged as malware

Full details, and info on a fork or using an old safe version here: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

comment by TheKarateKid · 2021-02-04 · in The Great Suspender has been flagged as malware, removed from Chrome Web Store

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Why Great Suspender Was Removed from the Chrome Web Store

story by albertzeyer · 2021-02-04 · 1 comment

…notification on Chrome that it was disabled due to malware. Full info and forked version info here: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

comment by TheKarateKid · 2021-02-04 · in The Great Suspender Got Suspended from the Chrome Store

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The Great Suspender has been flagged as malware, removed from Chrome Web Store

story by neurostimulant · 2021-02-04 · 10 comments

…unsubstantiated, in this thread) concerns about OneTab's data collection and management[0]. [0] https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

comment by BlueGh0st · 2021-01-21 · in I no longer trust The Great Suspender

More detailed information can be found here: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

comment by dstick · 2021-01-20 · in I no longer trust The Great Suspender

…static.trackivation.com - Ratings Preview for YouTube, cdn.webtraanalytica.com Copied from https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

comment by kburman · 2021-01-20 · in I no longer trust The Great Suspender

More discussion on GitHub: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1... Quite similar to what happened to Nano Adblocker/Defender a few months ago.

comment by Centigonal · 2021-01-20 · in I no longer trust The Great Suspender

…authenticity issues recently with some sketchy things being published like The Great Suspender https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1... . I've got to spend more time investigating a way to remove this question for…

comment by jsomau · 2021-01-15 · in Ask HN: What are you working on?

Reminds of the recent greatsuspender issue that's been going on recently ( https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1... )

comment by ecnahc515 · 2021-01-15 · in Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user data

Thread with more details https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

comment by bleair · 2021-01-09 · in Chrome extension great suspended now tracking you

Looks like there's discussion happening here: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

comment by Xavdidtheshadow · 2021-01-05 · in An experimental open source memristor / programmable “diode”

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The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious

story by AdamGibbins · 2021-01-03 · 178 comments

…losing all your tabs (to which there are workarounds), I'm very wary of using this extension. [1]: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

comment by herewulf · 2021-01-02 · in TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Upcoming changes to the management of The Great Suspender

story by joshuaissac · 2020-11-04 · 0 comments

…domains for some users, and there were so many cookies that this broke Google sites for some users. https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/5...

comment by Thorrez · 2020-09-08 · in URL query parameters and how laxness creates de facto requirements on the web

https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender is great on Chrome (up until now).

comment by tmsh · 2020-08-25 · in Chrome just got faster with Profile Guided Optimization

Well, it is opensource so anyone can fix it for fun or profit: https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender

comment by imhoguy · 2018-03-11 · in Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?

The Great Suspender Chrome extension was also phished https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender/issues/512

comment by Buge · 2017-07-31 · in Our Copyfish extension was stolen and adware-infested

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The Great Suspender: chrome extension for suspending all tabs to free up memory

story by simonpure · 2017-07-04 · 0 comments

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The Great Suspender Chrome Extension Got Hacked

story by nikolay · 2017-06-06 · 0 comments

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The Great Suspender

story by kols · 2017-05-10 · 0 comments

…to use with dozens of tabs open. Give it a spin for yourself and feel the difference in smoothness. https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender

comment by mmerlin · 2017-03-15 · in Chrome 57 restricts background tabs to 1% CPU, prolonging battery life

…Toby ( https://www.gettoby.com/ ) for this and it's simply brilliant* *Add The Great Suspender ( https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender ) if you have a tab-hoarding problem

comment by aviraldg · 2016-12-30 · in Show HN: Tabbie, a tab manager for Google Chrome

I use https://www.one-tab.com and https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender p.s. There is so much good links get submitted to HN combined with all that information noise this getting to homepage ? Yeah, forced. Yes, this is really…

comment by diimdeep · 2016-12-30 · in Show HN: Tabbie, a tab manager for Google Chrome

…and cpu that the tab was consuming. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende... https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender

comment by minot · 2016-12-03 · in Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

you can get the source and check it out yourself: https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender

comment by seoguru · 2016-04-20 · in MacBook gets a Skylake speed boost, 8GB of memory, longer battery life

The one at Chrome store is rather dated. The latest one is available at https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender , and must be installed in developer mode. t

comment by vfclists · 2015-02-13 · in Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

I did try this one for some time before The great suspender ( https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender/ ). IMO the great suspender is better at solving this problem for me because (recalling from memory my experience with tabmemfree…

comment by mohanr · 2013-03-11 · in Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

There are better extensions out there solving this problem. One I use is https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender/ It frees memory by taking a snapshot of the page and loading the image (instead of the DOM). This frees up a great…

comment by mohanr · 2013-03-11 · in Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome