Both the “ Add to Feedly ” and “ Tweet This Page ” extensions were quietly update of late but in the process began prey users undesirable advert , reports the Wall Street Journal . In fact , the situation seemed so bad that reviews on the “ Add to Feedly ” extension page referred to the software system as junk e-mail .
Google ’s insurance policy , updated in December , allows extensions to only insert advert on one part of a web page . “ add up to Feedly ” and “ Tweet This Page ” seem to have been throw in multiple ads , including in place where they never appear , like Google ’s home page .
It ’s a result of the fact that Google does n’t vet extension code before it ’s update by source on its host , and allows new versions to pushed automatically to the computers of users . So , when Amit Agrawal , the developer of “ Add to Feedly , ” admittedthat he ’d sell his extensionto an unknown purchaser , it should perhaps not have been surprising that said purchaser also inject invasive advertising into the code . Asimilar thing bechance to Tweet This Page .
Each prolongation had fewer than 100,000 user at the time , and both have now been removed by Google . Let ’s just hope it does n’t become a common course . [ WSJ ]
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