Some people can't even imagine browsing different websites without ad blockers. Thanks to these softwares, they are saved from many advertisements, some of which are really very annoying, and when viewing the content of the website, they are not afraid to cover all its content and play a certain sound on top to make you notice it even better. However, the paradox is that even an ad blocker often does not protect you from certain inconveniences associated with them.
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One of the most used browsers in the world is without a doubt Google Chrome. In addition to a nice user interface and speed, it also offers the possibility of easy expansion through various add-ons, including ad blockers. However, a recent investigation by security analysts at AdGuard found that Chrome It contains, or rather contained, a lot of ad blockers that only pretended to be useful software.
Thanks to the investigation, it turned out that these fake ad blockers often actually block ads, but they collect a lot of information about the PC user's behavior "at the order" of their creator, and then use that information to control the browser itself. It can happen that, for example, some terms are offered by the browser far more than others, which can be used especially in various advertising campaigns.
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Fortunately, Google reacted quite quickly after discovering this problem and blocked all such harmful ad blockers. Even so, they managed to be downloaded by 20 million users, so their number was quite large. There is a price to be paid for being careless. In the case of dubious software, this is doubly true.
