Chrome Web Store slammed again after 295 ad-injecting, spammy extensions downloaded 80 million times

Google’s Chrome Web Store is once again under fire for poor policing of harmful extensions. In a blog post this week, ad-blocking biz AdGuard took Google to task for allowing almost 300 policy-violating extensions to be downloaded by over 80 million users – some of whom are likely faked by spammers – without doing anything until weeks after being alerted to the problem.

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