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Twitch ad blocker google chrome
Twitch ad blocker google chrome






twitch ad blocker google chrome

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.








Twitch ad blocker google chrome