I suppose this is progress, but I can’t imagine that it will be making it into any TED talks any time soon. If you tick the boxes saying “no, obviously not” then it also features an aesthetically pleasing design dark pattern designed to trick you into accidentally changing your mind.

It comes with a tastefully designed startup screen asking whether you would like to opt-in to having all your browsing history sent to the SimilarWeb servers. To give a small amount of credit where a small amount of credit is due, Stylish v3.1.8 is more up front about its plans for tracking your entire online life. It is functionally identical to Stylish, apart from the facts that it has never contained any spyware, and is not owned by a company that makes its money by selling your data. If you want to change the way that the internet looks, just use Stylus. But thanks to the open source Stylish clone “ Stylus”, these aren’t even questions that need to be answered. Will SimilarWeb (the adtech company that owns Stylish) try to sneak in more underhanded tracking in the future? I don’t see why not. However, Stylish v3.1.8 is now back in the Firefox add-on store, and it’s bigger and better and more technically compliant than ever. The story echoed around parts of the internet for a few days, my name was misspelled on several right-wing British news websites, and I felt that I’d helped make the world a fractionally better place.

2 days after I published ‘ “Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history’, Stylish was pulled from the Chrome and Firefox stores.

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