The uBlock” by “Charlie Lee” has more than 863,000 installs while “AdBlock” by “AdBlock, Inc” is currently being used by more than 848,000 unsuspecting users. These Ad Blockers are “ AdBlock” by “AdBlock, Inc” and “ uBlock” by “Charlie Lee.” You read that right! According to research conducted by Adguard, two of the most popular Ad Blockers on Chrome Web Store are fake and carrying out large scale ad fraud by using names of legitimate popular Ad Blockers. But what if your Ad Blocker is malicious and using your browsing activities to make millions of dollars in return? One also can’t deny that Ad Blockers actually protects users from redirecting to malicious or compromised websites hosting malware or phishing scam.
It’s a fact that Ad Blockers greatly hurt daily earnings of websites but at the same time, these figures are lucrative for cybercriminals and petty online crooks looking to make big bucks on someone else’s behalf. There are more than 600 million users currently surfing the Internet with their Ad Blockers on. If you are using these two Ad Blockers we suggest removing them from your browser right now or be home to extensive ongoing ad fraud.
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