Hey all, Just wondering what happened this.
4-star rating on the Chrome Web Store, you cant go wrong with Avast Online. 1 hours ago Empty New Tab Page - Black is listed as This extension violates the Chrome Web Store policy. TWC advises users to flag extensions and plugins if they discover any rogue or spam activities, and suggests you use ExtShield to protect yourself from malicious Chrome extensions. Y: Discover great apps, games, extensions and themes for Google Chrome. As posted by WSJ, Google appreciatively noticed the issue and pulled down the extensions. Thankfully both the extensions ‘Tweet this page’ and ‘Add to Feedly’ didn’t have many users, otherwise the situation could be more pervasive. google chrome wanmask extension 'this extension violates the google web store policy' hi all i'm puzzled - been using wanmask in google chrome for months now - woke today and booted pc- wanmask disabled. The adware issue popped up this weekend and users posted on internet message boards’ describing about the undesirable ads served by the extensions on multiple spots of every web page viewed. Explaining the issue its developer Amit Agarwal further said that the ads injected by the extension were not the regular banner ads, but some invisible ads that replace links on every web page into affiliate links. Meanwhile, Ars Technica, the developer of ‘Tweet This Page’ also explained that the extension started injecting ads after it had been purchased and altered silently.Īs Chrome allows extensions to be updated and pushed automatically, these two extensions were silently updated to include codes that serve ads on every web page browsed.
