Google Yanks Chrome Extensions Over Invasive Ads

It looks like we missed a little uproar on the internet over the weekend. No need to panic though, Google has already removed the offending extensions.

Internet message boards were abuzz this weekend over the two extensions — "Add to Feedly" and "Tweet This Page" — each of which had fewer than 100,000 users. In both cases, people described how the extensions were silently updated to include code that served undesirable ads. One user review for "Add to Feedly" called the extension "spam" that caused ads to suddenly pop up on any website visited.

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