Security News > 2015 > April > Google boots unwanted ad injector extensions from Chrome Web Store (Help Net Security)
2015-04-02 13:52
Google is done with tolerating sneaky ad injectors and, following the results of a study they recently conducted, they removed from the Chrome Web Store 192 deceptive Chrome extensions that affected 1...
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