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Fake Adblock Plus extension fools thousands of Chrome users

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The proliferation of online ads means that more and more people are turning to ad blockers, and Adblock Plus remains one of the most popular. Taking advantage of this, fraudulent developers pushed a fake version of the Adblock Plus extension into the Chrome Web Store, bypassing Google's checks and filters. In all, 37,000 people were tricked into downloading the fake version of Adblock Plus. Google has now acted and removed the fake listing from the store. See also: Adblock Plus introduces a new way to block ads on Facebook Adblock Plus releases cryptocurrency miner hijack protection filter Adblock Browser 2.0… [Continue Reading]

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