Both of these things violate some policies, and considered malware. It's not just that, the add-on is actually redirecting requests made to Amazon.UK, without the user being aware of this. The extension's developer could earn a commission, when someone buys a product after clicking the affiliate URLs. Some users spotted that product listings on Amazon.UK ended with a referral tag "aradb-21", which the browser plugin began injecting. More specifically, the extension wanted to "Read and change your data on all Amazon sites". What followed was worse, the add-on had been updated, and requested new permissions. Here is a web archive page of the original repo. The GitHub page for the Video Ad-Block for Twitch extension has vanished, which was the first bad sign. The add-on, which was available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, had over 600,000 users. This is one of many reasons why one should use an ad-blocker, but what happens when an add-on that is supposed to protect you goes rogue? That, sadly, is what has happened to the Video Ad-Block for Twitch extension. Video ads are perhaps the most annoying thing on the internet.
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