Google kills 200 ad-injecting Chrome extensions, says many are malware | @dangoodin001 in @arstechnicahttp://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/google-kills-200-ad-injecting-chrome-extensions-says-many-are-malware/ …
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RE: 200 extensions banned - this is why SSL injection was the chosen method of SuperFish. Firefox and Chrome regularly blacklist extensions.
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RE: 200 extensions banned - Chrome lead way in controlling extensions, Firefox is catching up sort of, we'll see about Microsoft Spartan.
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@SwiftOnSecurity Opera manually checks extensions for malware before accepting them on https://addons.opera.com/en/ . Chrome does no such thing.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@SwiftOnSecurity Of course there’s always malicious extensions that are not submitted to the “store” at all. Those get blacklisted.
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