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Here’s how hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions
How do you stash 18,000 keywords into a description? Turns out it’s easy.
On Wednesday, security and privacy researcher Wladimir Palant revealed that developers are flagrantly violating those terms in hundreds of extensions currently available for download from Google. Descriptions specified for languages such as Armenian, Bengali, and Filipino list the extension names as "RetailMeNot Retail Me Not Fakespot Fake spot Slickdeals," "promo code The Camelizer wanteeed Cently Acorns Earn," and "Coupert Karma CouponBirds Coupon Birds Octoshop discount." Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords.
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