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Here’s how hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions

Google’s policy barring manipulation of browser extensions in the Chrome Web Store is being violated, according to security and privacy researcher Wladimir Palant. Developers are inflating search results with unrelated or inferior knockoffs of original apps, despite it being expressly forbidden by Google. Certain searches even indicate possible abuse such as unauthorised monetisation of web searches.

Source: arstechnica.com –

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