He says: “ one way to see if you have the real one is by going to Chrome > More Tools > Extensions. In William’s post he gives instructions for users to detect the phony app. Because of this we’ve stayed on top of would-be scammers for years now, so that you can trust what you’re getting is actually what you want.” How can you tell the fake Adblock Plus app? It’s a bit troubling, of course, that it made it in there in the first place. In a post by Ben Williams on the Adblock Plus website he said: “ Thanks to alerting people to this….We’ve been following this story carefully, and were pleased to see how quickly the false extension was kicked out.
At present, 37,000 users are known to have downloaded the fake app.
It’s success has led to a fake version of the app being downloaded from the Chrome Web Store. It has been successful with versions for all the key browsers available on desktops, laptops and mobile devices.
Adblock Plus has built a reputation around blocking annoying ads, blocking domains spreading malware and disabling tracking.
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