The most obvious change end users noticed was that infected browsers were automatically issuing likes for large numbers of Instagram posts, with no input from users. “In simple words, the extension remotely checks whether you are using the extension dev tools-which is what you would do if you wanted to find out what the extension is doing,” he wrote. If it was opened, the extension sent a file titled "report" to a server at. The first thing Hill noticed the new extension doing was checking if the user had opened the developer console.
Xu told me that Nano Adblocker and Nano Defender, which often are installed together, have about 300,000 installations total.įour days ago, Raymond Hill, maker of the uBlock Origin extension upon which Nano Adblocker is based, revealed that the new developers had rolled out updates that added malicious code. At this writing, uBlock Origin did not turn up in Store searches.Cyril GorllaHugo Xu, developer of the Nano Adblocker and Nano Defender extensions, said 17 days ago that he no longer had the time to maintain the project and had sold the rights to the versions available in Google’s Chrome Web Store. If you want to give uBlock Origin for Edge a try click on the link at the top of this post to open its page in the Windows Store. The extension also can’t block ads on Bing web searches. For now, that’s nothing a copy and paste of external links can’t cure. One notable problem is that clicking an external link in Gmail opens a blank tab and the Gmail tab crashes. The impact on you at home: Even though it’s available on the Windows Store there are still a few issues with the extension (check them out on GitHub), hence the “preview” label. From the sounds of it, Rolls worked with Microsoft to iron out some major glitches and get the extension in shape for a Windows Store release. He then began iterating that original version over the next few months until Microsoft got in touch around September.
Rolls began uBlock Origin for Edge about five months ago and was able to get the extension functional in about an hour. If that explanation still doesn’t convince you, note that the original uBlock Origin project lists Roll’s Edge version on the official extension’s project page.
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