Microsoft Removes 18 Malicious Edge Extensions for Injecting Ads Into Web Pages

Microsoft has removed 18 Edge browser extensions from the Edge Add-ons portal after the extensions were caught injecting ads into users' web search results pages. From a report: The extensions were removed between November 20 and November 25 after Microsoft received multiple complaints from users via Reddit. A subsequent investigation found multiple abusive extensions that had been uploaded on Microsoft's new fledgling Edge Add-ons portal. According to a list shared by a Microsoft community manager, the 18 extensions can be grouped into two categories. The first one is for extensions that tried to pass as the official versions of various apps, even if those apps didn't have official versions for Edge. This included: NordVPN, Adguard VPN, TunnelBear VPN, Ublock Adblock Plus, Greasemonkey, and Wayback Machine.

Ads on the MS desktop ?

[Alain Williams]

So will they remove whatever it is that puts ads onto the Windows 10 desktop ?

(Disclaimer: or so I am told as I don't have any Windows machines.)

Re: Ads on the MS desktop ?

[OrangeTide]

I too was surprised when Microsoft Feedback Hub popped up asking me if I would recommend Windows 10. I disabled notifications from the app and went back to doing real work. You know, the entire reason I'm sitting in front of a computer running a corporate licensed enterprise edition of Windows. smh

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[tlhIngan]

I too was surprised when Microsoft Feedback Hub popped up asking me if I would recommend Windows 10. I disabled notifications from the app and went back to doing real work. You know, the entire reason I'm sitting in front of a computer running a corporate licensed enterprise edition of Windows. smh

And by doing that, you basically gave a silent endorsement for this. You had the opportunity to say "No, I wouldn't recommend Windows 10 because it puts up these annoying dialogs that get in my way and keep me fro

Re: Ads on the MS desktop ?

[drinkypoo]

But interacting with it would have been a sign that you respond to distractions...

Yea! as we come to the end of 2020

[oldgraybeard]

I am enjoying the end of my 1st year of being completely Microsoft and Windows free. I have no Microsoft accounts nor do I use any of their services or products.

And life is just fine ;) Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with kubuntu thumbs up here.

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[DontBeAMoran]

So, no Xbox either, right?

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[oldgraybeard]

Nope ;) no Xbox

First Step

[JBMcB]

Great news! Now remove all of the bogus Zoom apps from the store, please.

Browser add-ons

[DontBeAMoran]

I don't know how anyone can really trust browser add-ons, no matter what OS or browser you use.

Re: Browser add-ons

[Malays2 bowman]

"I don't know how anyone can really trust browser add-ons, no matter what OS or browser you use"

Browsing was becoming a living hell before I used Ublock Origin and a one button Javashit toggler.

So far no problems from those extentions (knock on wood). Now if Javashit brogrammers can stop sleeping with the enemy and refrain from adding more and more user hostile, corporate bloodsucker friendly 'features' to the Javashit system, or maybe even add built in malware protection, maybe I can stop calling it "Javas

They hate the competition

[Rick Schumann]

Well, of course they terminated those add-ons, with great prejudice no doubt, because so far as Microsoft is concerned, only Microsoft can shove ads in your face whether you wanted them or not.
So glad I don't have to put up with that shit.

Microsoft is tricking a lot of people

[xack]

Into using Edge, by making it look exactly like chrome, so people who had it sneakily installed can't tell the difference. Also a lot of cheap laptops now come in S mode that only support Edge unless you beg Microsoft to switch out of it. Microsoft's tactics are working, they are now the number two browser after Chrome.

Only 18?

[serialband]

Only 18?