Wer auch leicht irritiert war das Chrome die populärsten Adblocker aus seinen plugin store wirft, es waren nicht die erwähnten adblocker sondern Kopien die den gleichen namen verwendet haben:
“Discovered by researchers at Adguard, the two newly caught Chrome extensions mentioned below were found using the names of two real and very popular ad-blocking extensions in an attempt to trick most users into downloading them.”
VG,
David
On 20. Sep 2019, at 14:30, Bernd Kohler <kohler@itc.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
Hallo zusammen,
sofern nicht selber schon gesehen/-lesen hier [0] FYI
"Two Widely Used Ad Blocker Extensions for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme"
es geht um AdBlock by AdBlock, Inc — over 800,000 users
uBlock by Charlie Lee — over 850,000 users
==> Google Removed Both Ad Blocker Extensions from Chrome Web Store
Hmmm, und wie sieht es bzgl. AdBlock und uBlock bei Firefox aus???
VG
Bernd
[0]
https://thehackernews.com/2019/09/browser-chrome-extension-adblock.html
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