两款Chrome扩展应用遭下架 因违规嵌入广告

新华网1月21日电 据美国科技博客Gizmodo报道，Google浏览器Chrome本周下架了两款扩展程序。此前有报道称Chrome扩展程序被广告软件利用，制造垃圾信息。此次被下架的两款扩展程序同样违反Google公司的服务条款。

日前，美国《华尔街日报》报道称名"Add to Feedly"和"Tweet This Page"两款扩展程序会自动后台升级，并在升级过程中自动向用户推送垃圾广告。"Add to Feedly"的用户反馈页更是直指该扩展为"垃圾"。

在去年12月更新的Google服务条款仅允许扩展程序在页面的一个部分嵌入广告，而"Add to Feedly"与"Tweet This Page"这两款应用不止在一处嵌入广告，甚至在它们从不会出现的Google首页嵌入了广告。

由于在扩展程序发布新版本前Google不会检测其代码，才会造成上述情况的发生。"Add to Feedly"的研发者 Amit Agrawal表示他将这款扩展程序卖给了一位匿名卖家，因此在这款扩展程序里发现恶意广告代码也不足为奇。

目前，上述这两款拥有约10万用户的扩展程序已经从Chrome Web Store下架，但愿这样的情况不要在扩展程序界泛滥。

译者：张免

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Google\'s so removed two Chrome browser extensions over the weekend, because the software appears to serve spam ads—in turn violating company\'s terms of service. Both the "Add to Feedly" and "Tweet This Page" extensions were quietly updated recently but in the process began feeding users undesirable ads, reports the Wall Street Journal.

In fact, the situation seemed so bad that reviews on the "Add to Feedly" extension page referred to the software as spam. Google\'s policy, updated in December, allows extensions to only insert adverts on one part of a web page. "Add to Feedly" and "Tweet This Page" seem to have been injecting multiple ads, including in places where they never appear, like Google\'s home page.

It\'s a result of the fact that Google doesn\'t vet extension code before it\'s updated by authors on its server, and allows new versions to pushed automatically to the computers of users. So, when Amit Agrawal, the developer of "Add to Feedly," admitted that he\'d sold his extension to an unknown buyer, it should perhaps not have been surprising that said purchaser also injected invasive advertising into the code.

Each extension had fewer than 100,000 users at the time, and both have now been removed by Google. Let\'s just hope it doesn\'t become a common trend.