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		kevindication on May 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox add-on with 7m downloads secretly tracks y... The difference being that you have to decide to install this harmful extension. ActiveX just gets loaded during regular browsing.

WalterGR on May 20, 2011 [–]

ActiveX hasn't worked that way for a long time. At least since XP SP2, released 2004. Possibly even before then - I'm not sure exactly what XP SP2 changed.

Edit: Fix typo.

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