Over the weekend we learned about a devious new way for spammers to make money: By buying up third-party Chrome extensions and then using them to inject adware into users' browsers. This means that anyone who has installed a compromised Chrome extension is likely to see ads pop up just about everywhere while they're surfing the web, which obviously makes using Chrome as your web browser much more annoying.
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Google kills off adware-injecting Chrome extensions