The “Chromium” version of UBO (unlike the Firefox version) is a “half-finished specification” that function restricted (limited). Now You: do you vet extensions before you install them? You could look for reviews on trusted sites, or make sure that the company that supposedly created the extension has indeed created it by verifying that on the company site. Reviews and ratings help only so much, as they can be faked and sometimes, may not be available. One of the best options is to analyze the code of the extension, but that is hardly something that all Edge users can do. This leads to the following question: what can you do to protect yourself? In other words: there is always the chance that an extension is malicious in nature because of an insufficient vetting process. The two incidents suggest that users need to be very careful when installing extensions from the Microsoft Edge extensions store as Microsoft's protections are as weak as Google's protections on the Chrome Web Store. Raymone Hill, maker of the popular content blocker uBlock Origin, discovered another fake extension in the store that was based on an earlier version of uBlock Origin and manipulated website content to inject content on websites the user visited. Microsoft pulled the fake extensions from its web store and users who installed these in Edge will have them disabled on the next start of the browser automatically. NordVPN, Adguard VPN or The Great Suspender to lure users into installing the extensions. All of these extensions were hosted on the official Microsoft Store they used names of popular services and programs, e.g. It turned out that rogue extensions were responsible for that. According to the information, users of Edge opened support requests when they started to notice that searches were redirected when they used the Microsoft Edge browser. Sites like Techdows published articles on the removal. Microsoft had to remove malicious extensions from its Edge extensions store in May, and it appears that the company had to remove additional extensions this month. The increase seems to have brought along with it the issues that the other popular extension stores face from time to time. Edge users may install Chrome extensions as well next to that. The switch to Chromium pushed the number of available extensions for Microsoft Edge and the Store is now hosting thousands of extensions for the browser. This is because the majority of spam posts are coming from brand new users who have not read the posting rules listed above.Microsoft operates its own extensions store as part of Microsoft Store, and things seemed to have taken a turn for the better with the switch to the Chromium base earlier this year.Ĭlassic Microsoft Edge suffered from a lack of available extensions, and while Microsoft tried to explain the low number of extensions for the browser, it was clear that the browser could not compete with Google's or Mozilla's extension stores. Your reddit account must be older than 1 month to submit LINK posts. If you or your company has an interest in promoting a product or service please message the mods beforehand to clear it with us. Unless it is yours or you have the license stating that redistributing is allowed. Click here!ĭistributing copyright material is against our community policy. If you think your post got caught in the spam filter. Please review the above links if you need help securing WordPress or cleaning malware. Having a blog with in the url does not mean it is WordPress related. Try /r/blogging or /r/BlogExchange instead. This is not the place to share your blog or talk about blogging in general. r/WordPress is for WordPress discussion not design Read the Been hacked? Don't Panic! section of the wiki. See the Theming WordPress section of the wiki. Try /r/WordpressPlugins and /r/WordPressthemes instead.ĭon't use bitly or similar when posting links or links within comments. We're already using it so there's no point. This also includes trying to "sell" us WordPress. Consider reddit advertising instead.Ĭonsider reddit advertising instead. This includes "how to" posts that recommend themes, plugins or services to do things. The place for news, articles and discussion regarding WordPress.
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