is also available on Edge add-ons Store with different icon and another publisher name, but it is the same extension. If you’re using the extension, uninstall it immediately.
The extension has been reported is still on the Chrome Web Store. … A user left comment two days back with a message, “This extension will add unrelated ads on top your Google search results.” Recently posted reviews by users reveal what the extension is doing behind the scenes. … Google Chrome extension “Screenshot & Screen Capture Elite,” with over 1 million user installs, is reportedly injecting ads into Google Search results pages. If you’ve installed Ad Blocking extension and still noticing ads on Google Search results page in Chrome, that probably has to do with Extensions you’ve installed. users still have to manually uninstall it.Īnd Venkat Eswarlu independently finds one-“ Popular Chrome Screenshot Extension is injecting Ads”: When Google removes an extension from the Chrome Web Store for malicious activity, the extension is also disabled in users’ browsers and marked as “malware” in Chrome’s Extension section. The also details additional bad practices on the Chrome Web Store, such as store moderators allowing a large number of copycat extensions to clone popular add-ons, capitalize on their brands, reach millions of users, while also containing malicious code that performs ad fraud or cookie stuffing. extensions loaded malicious code from the domain, and then proceeded to quietly inject ads. More than 80 million Chrome users have installed one of 295 Chrome extensions that hijack and insert ads inside Google and Bing search results. What’s the craic? Catalin Cimpanu reports-“ Chrome extensions caught hijacking … search results”: Not to mention: Rethinking airline safety announcements. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. In today’s SB Blogwatch, we’re suitably sarcastic.
It’s not as if Chrome was in any way important or widely used.
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