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Chromium versions of Nano Adblocker or Nano Defenderare are malicious and should be removed now
| thanks for the heads up. don't see the point in using 3rd party spinoffs of the original utility anyway.
| >>706996
...the apps that are compromised. they're spinoffs of a superior utility, uBlock Origin.
Its literally in your OP.
| spinoffs?
| >>707008 "Something that is imitative or derivative of an earlier work, product, or establishment" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spin-off
| Oh lord please don't get into another argument about the meaning of words. We already went through the whole free and libre fiasco, we don't need another on forks and spin-offs.
| looks like auto updates can harm users huh, wierd
| >>707036
Basically this:
>>707197
I'm not offended, I think OP just didn't understand the slang I used to describe the situation.
| Generally I would say "spin-off" and "fork" can be used as synonyms in some cases.
The only difference is, that spin-off is usually more used on media products (movies, series, comic-books, etc.), while "fork" is more used in (open source) software development. But this is more a question of convenience then of meaning.
>>707036
What Fiasco? Wasn't "libre" just introduced to have a stand-alone lemma for "free as in freedom" (instead "as in free beer")?
| is nano adblocker related to the famous "ad blocker" we all know and use? if so this is big news, but if this is just a third party ad block you get what you deserve for downloading a third party
| We all know and use ublock origin these days the "ad block" was sold years back
And yeah apparently this was a fork of ublock so people could have seen this coming
| Is adblock plus safe?
| >>709518 it's safe but bad, they basically forced Google and other services to pay them to be whitelisted which is why it does/did show ads on youtube, which defeats the purpose of an ad blocker
Use ublock origin instead it's open source and doesn't do shandy stuff like that
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| Four days ago, Raymond Hill, maker of the uBlock Origin extension upon which Nano Adblocker is based, revealed that the new developers had rolled out updates that added malicious code.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/popular-chromium-ad-blockers-caught-stealing-user-data-and-accessing-accounts/