Google has removed several fake ad blockers (Warning auto play video) after research firm AdGuard published a blog showing that over 20 million Chrome users had downloaded them over the last year. I have to say that AdGuard did everyone a service by finding this, but the fact that Google didn’t vet these ad blockers well is concerning. I hope some of you [H] readers didn’t fall for any of these fake ad blockers.



The most popular fake ad blocker was AdRemover for Google Chrome, which had over 10 million users, putting a massive botnet of infected browsers at its authors’ disposal.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Fake Ad-Blockers Removed From Chrome Store After 20M Users Download Them