![]() They've been associated with malicious ads for a long time, and I see more reports of them among Chrome users than anything else. I strongly suspect that the recent (last 6-9 months) spike in infections of fake anti-malware programs is related to this. In effect, they're making you less secure in an effort to make the browser more secure, because people go on using the Chrome version of addons like this, thinking that they behave the same way as with FF. This is because Chrome doesn't allow addons the level of access to the browser that is required to do the job properly. They still get downloaded, and any malicious payload could still affect you. There's an important distinction between Adblock+ for FF and Chrome:įirefox: Blocked ads don't get downloaded, they're blacklisted as the page loads, so malicious ads caught by it are not a threat.Ĭhrome: Ads are not blocked, but merely hidden with Javascript. ![]() I stick with Firefox because it has better support for addons like Adblock+.
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