The plug is removed, respectively, "cottage" of the two mainstream ad blocking plug-ins - Adblock Plus and uBlock.
Ads appear when the shield has long been Internet users browse the Web just to be, which is why users tend to always drop in advertising shield fitted with a plug-in after installing the browser. However, in this process, once the viewer is not aware of your computer will become a tool for others to profit.
Google has deleted the two "cottage" ad from the Chrome Web Store shield plug. According to ZDNet reports , both extensions are fully functional ad blocking plug-ins (based on open source code ad blocking plug-ins), but they are tricking users by posing as other "genuine" extension. Although they can also block ads, but its real purpose is to earn a rebate or a third-party consumer shopping site by manipulating the user's browser Cookie.
via: Adguard
Here used to be known as " Cookie stuffing technology", which is a relatively old technology, mainly used in affiliate marketing in order to hijack traffic from legitimate sources. Cottage extended aforementioned " AdBlock " and " uBlock " extra information to the user by expanding the injected Cookie, the Cookie and further control purposes in Cookie period.
It is understood that the two plug-ins will be activated on teamviewer.com, microsoft.com, linkedin.com, aliexpress.com, booking.com and other sites. In other words, if a user when visiting these sites, shopping sites visited by top advertising and consumption, then the author will get a plug-in rebate.
AdGuard 的联合创始人兼 CTO Andrey Meshkov 表示，这种恶意行为只会在安装后的 55 小时内开始，如果用户打开 Chrome 的开发人员工具，这种行为就会停止。
另外，截止 Google 删除这两款“山寨”插件时，"AdBlock" 已被安装超过 80 万次，"uBlock" 则超过 85 万次。插件被删除后，所有用户浏览器中已安装的插件也均已被禁用。