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So turns out granting poorly-verified extensions permission to literally take over your browser after reading easily gamed reviews is a bad idea?

The worst of the spyware / download guys are now the best of the "legit" extension affiliates.

I don't get why googles verification team is asleep at the wheel on this, I feel the exact same way about amazon and their counterfeiters abusing the shit out of fake reviews and buy counts.

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Umm... maybe they don’t want people using ad blockers. So having a malicious minefield may inhibit users from installing them. Maybe...

Not impossible. Will take this opportunity to remind people of the ad blocker that google censored from their web store: https://adnauseam.io/

This thing clicks ads for you so that parasites can't use data for anything meaningful. Check it out!

Surely all that does is make Google more money?

But it dilutes the value of ads in the long run giving 0 conversion (or whatever stupid term is appropriate). They took their shitty stand by blocking this adblocker specifically, surely there's something about it others don't have.

It could really be 'malware' of course, but my money's on the other possibility.

if it did profit them in the long run, they would not block it.

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