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So I've decided to take a deeper look inside of this so-called "AdRemover". For instance, take a look at the stats of one of them: Instead of using tricky names they now spam keywords in the extension description trying to make to the top search results.Īpparently, being in the top is enough to gain trust of casual users. All the extensions I've highlighted are simple rip-offs with a few lines of code and some analytics code added by the "authors". The only way of fighting this stuff is to file a trademark violation abuse to Google, and it takes them a few days to take a clone down. That's how users could end up installing some "Adguard Hardline" or "Adblock Plus Premium" or something like that. It's been a while since different "authors" started spamming Chrome WebStore with lazy clones of popular ad blockers (with a few lines of their code on top of them). What if I told you that thanks to poor Chrome's WebStore moderation the situation is much worse, and in reality over 20,000,000 users are affected and tricked into installing fake malicious ad blockers? Seven months ago big news broke: 37,000 users were tricked into installing a fake Adblock Plus extension.
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This also explains why "cloning" wide-spread ad blockers has become so popular among online crooks. Given how popular ad blocking is, it is quite a lot.
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20% of users discovered ad blocking by browsing “available browser extensions”.
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Over 20,000,000 of Chrome Users are Victims of Fake Ad BlockersĪccording to the PageFair 2014 report, Google Chrome is a major driver of adblock growth.