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1. Awesome Screenshot
2. Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder
3. Awesome Screenshot Extension Microsoft Edge
4. Awesome Screenshot Taker
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6. Google Awesome Screenshot

Hope you all are doing well and staying safe during these challenging times. It has been nearly 3 months since we posted the response to the COVID-19.

From April 3rd to July 10th

We have been providing unlimited access to and unlimited storage of screen recordings to all users for free since April to help remote working and teaching. The original plan was to reinstate feature limits on July 1st. Though the economy is reopened gradually in most of the world, some sectors are still hard hit. We decided to extend the offer for another 10 days. Limits will be reinstated after July 10th.

1. These awesome screenshots are taken at the spur of the moment; right in the thick of the action, at that breathtaking second. Like all photos taken from a camera, the pictures are taken so that I can preserve those special moments in games.
2. Whether you want to share a link or download your screenshot, you can do both with Markup Hero. You can even copy the image to your clipboard if you want to paste it directly in an email or a chat message. All features work fast and are easy to find. Markup Hero is an awesome free screenshot tool!
3. Capture your screen with Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder, a powerful tool for screen sharing, used by millions of users. Save screen recordings & screenshots to awesomescreenshot.com and share.

After July 10th

Awesome Screenshot is described as 'Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, one-click upload to share' and is an app in the Photos & Graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Awesome Screenshot for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, the Web, Linux. Awesome Screenshot: Capture and Annotate is a free extension for Google Chrome that adds a screen capture utility with a small built-in graphics app that lets you edit, annotate, and share captured.

If you’re on the free plan and have saved more than 20 videos, your access to more- previously saved videos will be limited after July 10th. Please upgrade to the professional plan to gain unlimited access if you’d like to continue enjoying the service, or download your videos before they are locked if you prefer not to upgrade now.

New Features in 4.3.6

We have spent a lot of effort in the development of new features in the past few months. Today, we’re releasing a new version 4.3.6. What’s coming with this update? First of all, we’d like to introduce the carefully redesigned popup menu, a more user-friendly and easy-to-navigate interface, allowing you to quickly switch between screen recording and screen capture when needed.

You can set either Record or Capture as the default menu based on your primary usage scenario by clicking the Options button then changing the related setting.

Next are the major changes made on the screenshot functionality. Now you can:

• Capture a local HTML page
• Capture entire screen or app window after delay
• Directly copy a screenshot when capturing a selected area
• Skip annotating for quick saving
• Select an area or annotate a screenshot with pen on touch screen
• Add timestamp and page URL to a screenshot

Wondering how to enable some of these functions? Simply click on the Options button in the lower right corner of the popup menu! You will find various settings there. Check them out and customize the extension to your own preference 😀

We have also made some improvements on the recording feature and will keep working on more. Stay tuned!

Feel free to send us a message by clicking the Feedback button in the lower left corner of the popup menu if you have any questions, suggestions or any other issues.

With more than 1.3 million users, Diigo’s ‘Awesome Screenshot’ Chrome extension is an undeniably popular utility — but is its usefulness a front for something more sinister?

According to an investigation conducted by Miguel Jacq, a Linux system administrator with more than 10 years of experience, it seems so.

Despite the exuberant name Awesome Screenshot is doing something decidedly unawesome in the background: harvesting your browsing data.

Sniffing n’ Sleuthing

The behaviour in this add-on came to light when Miguel Jacq noticed hits to private URLs on one of the servers he manages were being made by something announcing itself as ‘niki-bot’.

Since this was pinging the kind of internal infrastructure links that regular web crawlers don’t have access to, Jacq dug a bit deeper, uncovering some kind of ‘browsing tracking’ software that was running on an employee’s computer.

“We had all visited many of the[se pages], but one user in particular was likely to have visited all of them due to the nature of their role. Virus scans showed up nothing on his computer,” he explains.

A bit of further sleuthing quickly threw up the culprit: Diigo‘s innocuous sounding ‘Awesome Screenshot’ extension for Google Chrome.

Awesome Screenshot Not Quite So Awesome After All

For all its usefulness the Awesome Screenshot tool is imbibed with an ulterior purpose: to track and send details of every page visited and search term entered by those with it installed. This data is shunted over to a third-party service at “lb.crdui.com“, a domain believed to be a redirect/API wrapper for the third-party service SimilarWeb.

Awesome Screenshot

If accurate, it’s likely that SimpleWeb pay Diigo to gather information on browsing habits, which they then subsequently sell or lease on to other companies for competition analysis purposes.

Now, in fairness, Diigo is not doing anything novel in partnering with a third-party company in this manner. The ‘malware’ furore earlier in the year flagged up the extent of the problem, forcing Google to bring in new guidelines that add-ons hosted in the store have to abide by.

Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder

Browsing habits are expensive currency in the online marketplace.

But while extensions tracking your every online move for the benefit of advertisers is nothing new, something about the way niki-bot works is. Rather than simply log sites and move on, this bot is allegedly still returning to tracked websites (including those private, internal pages) for reasons, as of writing, yet unknown.

‘No Personally Identifiable Data’

Diigo recently appended an updated privacy policy to the Chrome Web Store listing for this extension, which reads:

“Usage of the Awesome Screenshot browser extension requires granting it permission to capture anonymised click stream data. Anonymous usage and browsing activity may be collected for research purposes and may be shared in aggregate with third parties. No personally identifying information will be captured in connection with this data.”

But as Miguel Jacq notes, this truncated privacy statement contradicts the EULAs it goes on to link to, EULAs that usage of the software ‘agrees’ to. These state:

“…certain non-personally and personally identifiable information (the “User Information”) may be collected, stored and used for business and marketing purposes [and] includes, without limitation: IP address, unique identifier number, operating system, browser information, URLs visited, data from URLs loaded and pages viewed, search queries entered, social connections, profile properties, contact details, usage data, and other behavioural, software and hardware information.”

‘No personal identifying information’ seems to be double-speak for ‘all the personal identifying information’!

Play It Safe, Kids

The takeaway in all this is that when you install an extension in Chrome don’t just idly click through the permissions prompt. Pay attention to what it is asking for; the next time you see “access all your data on all sites” maybe question whether sacrificing your privacy is a price worth paying.

How many of us actually take the time to read over install permissions, much less give thought to what something like ‘read and change all your data on websites you visit‘ might entail?

Awesome Screenshot Extension Microsoft Edge

Awesome Screenshot Taker

Awesome Screenshot Ie Extension

Judging by the 1.3 million users of Awesome Screen, clearly not enough.

Google Awesome Screenshot

For the full security rundown on niki-bot do read the full article on Miguel Jacq’s blog, linked to below.