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Fnord666
on Saturday December 14 2019, @04:31AM
from the all-your-search-are-belong-to-us dept.
from the all-your-search-are-belong-to-us dept.
How a Chinese company built a $250 million search hijacking empire:
A publicly listed Chinese company has used a series of offshore shell companies to conceal their ownership of browser extensions that purport to offer a private search engine to users. These extensions with names like Search Encrypt and Hide My Searches engage in a form of ad fraud called search hijacking whereby searches are intercepted and redirected from one search engine to another. Our research has identified almost 7 million users who are affected by these malware extensions, which are helping this company generate almost $250 million a year in revenue.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @06:22AM
Why did people vote for #CrookedHillary?