Google has kicked five malicious ad blockers off the Chrome Store

FreddyFreeloader

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AdGuard, a company that provides its own paid ad blocking service, has released a report listing five fake extensions that have made their way to top spots in Chrome’s Web Store and been installed by millions of users...

AdGuard reports that more than 20 million users in total have downloaded and installed the five extensions, with one in particular topping out at 10 million downloads....

The five extensions mentioned in the AdGuard report have since been taken down by Google. While two of them aren’t strictly ad blockers, they abuse the same exploit. Here’s the list:

AdRemover for Google Chrome™
uBlock Plus
Adblock Pro
HD for YouTube™
Webutation "

Google has kicked five malicious ad blockers off the Chrome Store | TechRadar
 

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AdGuard, a company that provides its own paid ad blocking service, has released a report listing five fake extensions that have made their way to top spots in Chrome’s Web Store and been installed by millions of users...

AdGuard reports that more than 20 million users in total have downloaded and installed the five extensions, with one in particular topping out at 10 million downloads....

The five extensions mentioned in the AdGuard report have since been taken down by Google. While two of them aren’t strictly ad blockers, they abuse the same exploit. Here’s the list:

AdRemover for Google Chrome™
uBlock Plus
Adblock Pro
HD for YouTube™
Webutation "

Google has kicked five malicious ad blockers off the Chrome Store | TechRadar

That is why I asked to make malicious extensions a sticky. (Thanks to MOD's/ADMIN's for making it). In my request I even mentione uBlock Plus (and a few others).

Question: let's post this news in future in the malicions extensions thread
 

Mikesierra

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That´s the reason why I would never ever use unknown extensions when there are well-known ones like uBlock with a good reputation available.
 
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