"In a technical analysis shared with ZDNet, AdGuard said all extensions loaded malicious code from the fly-analytics.com domain, and then proceeded to quietly inject ads inside Google and Bing search results."
The original post has some details and recommendations:
What I don't quite understand is how do people make money from these things without getting caught? Is it not obvious where the money goes as people are getting paid from the fraud? Or is it more like no one cares?
Whilst I agree that this makes little to no difference to the average user, it is slightly different.
One can sue Google/MS. Google/MS likely already have all your data already while these randoms probably don't. Google/MS have security teams while whoever made these extensions probably doesn't.
A more interesting question would be, if these extension makers where as transparent as Google/MS, where sueable, and had decent security, would these extensions become okay.
The answer is obviously no, but I'm not sure why.
The original post has some details and recommendations:
https://adguard.com/en/blog/fake-ad-blockers-part-3.html
What I don't quite understand is how do people make money from these things without getting caught? Is it not obvious where the money goes as people are getting paid from the fraud? Or is it more like no one cares?