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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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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @08:06AM
Does the private search work?
If so, I don't give a damn if some idiots voluntarily pay them "$250 million a year in revenue." for ads. If the idiots don't like it, they can stop paying.