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Quote from: moni3z on January 22, 2014, 07:00:05 PM

Don't use any Chrome extentions
https://encosia.com/malware-chrome-extensions-inevitable/
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/adware_vendors.html

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To make matters worse, ownership of a Chrome extension can be transferred to another party, and users are never informed when an ownership change happens. Malware and adware vendors have caught wind of this and have started showing up at the doors of extension authors, looking to buy their extensions. Once the deal is done and the ownership of the extension is transferred, the new owners can issue an ad-filled update over Chrome's update service, which sends the adware out to every user of that extension.

Wow - that's simply awful. How could Google allow something like that? Makes me wanna ditch chrome ......

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Don't use any Chrome extentions
https://encosia.com/malware-chrome-extensions-inevitable/
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/adware_vendors.html

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To make matters worse, ownership of a Chrome extension can be transferred to another party, and users are never informed when an ownership change happens. Malware and adware vendors have caught wind of this and have started showing up at the doors of extension authors, looking to buy their extensions. Once the deal is done and the ownership of the extension is transferred, the new owners can issue an ad-filled update over Chrome's update service, which sends the adware out to every user of that extension.

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Quote from: AlmerFronberg on January 21, 2014, 05:24:26 AM

Quote from: empoweoqwj on January 21, 2014, 05:09:41 AM

Quote from: AlmerFronberg on January 21, 2014, 04:38:26 AM

Quote from: El Dude on January 20, 2014, 10:09:28 PM

ya , Im gonna trust software from a guy with 4 posts.

I will not try and convince you to trust our company, its your choice

The reason I have 4 posts in this forum is because I am not a regular member here, and we are publishing our extensions on
all the major bitcoin fourms.

The fact that I am not reguallry posting in bitcointalk.org, doesnt mean my first 100 posts cant be trusted.

The reason our source is still not published is mostly because we want to cover all the legal aspects of open source projects (License ..).
But, I would be more than happy sending a personal copy of the source to whom ever wants, just P.M me

What are the other major bitcoin forums? Just curious .....

We started advertising yesterday, Yesterday we published at:
Bitcointalk - This thread.
Reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1votwh/thetrollbox_chrome_extensions/

In the next few days we will also publish at bitcoin.stackexchange.com, bitcoinforum.com and some chinese only forums (We are the only company that has developed extensions for the chinese exchanges BTCChina\OKCoin\FXBTC)

And you aren't open sourcing yet because ? ...

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Quote from: empoweoqwj on January 21, 2014, 05:09:41 AM

Quote from: AlmerFronberg on January 21, 2014, 04:38:26 AM

Quote from: El Dude on January 20, 2014, 10:09:28 PM

ya , Im gonna trust software from a guy with 4 posts.

I will not try and convince you to trust our company, its your choice

The reason I have 4 posts in this forum is because I am not a regular member here, and we are publishing our extensions on
all the major bitcoin fourms.

The fact that I am not reguallry posting in bitcointalk.org, doesnt mean my first 100 posts cant be trusted.

The reason our source is still not published is mostly because we want to cover all the legal aspects of open source projects (License ..).
But, I would be more than happy sending a personal copy of the source to whom ever wants, just P.M me

What are the other major bitcoin forums? Just curious .....

We started advertising yesterday, Yesterday we published at:
Bitcointalk - This thread.
Reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1votwh/thetrollbox_chrome_extensions/

In the next few days we will also publish at bitcoin.stackexchange.com, bitcoinforum.com and some chinese only forums (We are the only company that has developed extensions for the chinese exchanges BTCChina\OKCoin\FXBTC)

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Quote from: AlmerFronberg on January 21, 2014, 04:38:26 AM

Quote from: El Dude on January 20, 2014, 10:09:28 PM

ya , Im gonna trust software from a guy with 4 posts.

I will not try and convince you to trust our company, its your choice

The reason I have 4 posts in this forum is because I am not a regular member here, and we are publishing our extensions on
all the major bitcoin fourms.

The fact that I am not reguallry posting in bitcointalk.org, doesnt mean my first 100 posts cant be trusted.

The reason our source is still not published is mostly because we want to cover all the legal aspects of open source projects (License ..).
But, I would be more than happy sending a personal copy of the source to whom ever wants, just P.M me

What are the other major bitcoin forums? Just curious .....

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Quote from: El Dude on January 20, 2014, 10:09:28 PM

ya , Im gonna trust software from a guy with 4 posts.

I will not try and convince you to trust our company, its your choice

The reason I have 4 posts in this forum is because I am not a regular member here, and we are publishing our extensions on
all the major bitcoin fourms.

The fact that I am not reguallry posting in bitcointalk.org, doesnt mean my first 100 posts cant be trusted.

The reason our source is still not published is mostly because we want to cover all the legal aspects of open source projects (License ..).
But, I would be more than happy sending a personal copy of the source to whom ever wants, just P.M me

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Quote from: BTCisthefuture on January 21, 2014, 12:31:55 AM

Quote from: empoweoqwj on January 20, 2014, 11:45:59 PM

Quote from: El Dude on January 20, 2014, 10:09:28 PM

ya , Im gonna trust software from a guy with 4 posts.

Just do what he says and examine all the source code first Wink

..... like anyone is going to do that just to run something that displays coin prices. I can go to any website to do that and not risk having my system infected.

Maybe a stupid question, but if something is in the google chrome store shouldn't/isn't it deemed safe to use ? Not sure what the requirements are to get in the chrome store but I can't imagine there isn't some sort of review by google first. Right?

On a side note, I was just looking at the chrome store and I've ended up switching my chrome theme to a bitcoin theme... I'm such a dork

You think google go through all the source code of all those free add-ons? No ......

Might get the bitcoin theme though

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Quote from: empoweoqwj on January 20, 2014, 11:45:59 PM

Quote from: El Dude on January 20, 2014, 10:09:28 PM

ya , Im gonna trust software from a guy with 4 posts.

Just do what he says and examine all the source code first Wink

..... like anyone is going to do that just to run something that displays coin prices. I can go to any website to do that and not risk having my system infected.

Maybe a stupid question, but if something is in the google chrome store shouldn't/isn't it deemed safe to use ? Not sure what the requirements are to get in the chrome store but I can't imagine there isn't some sort of review by google first. Right?

On a side note, I was just looking at the chrome store and I've ended up switching my chrome theme to a bitcoin theme... I'm such a dork

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Quote from: El Dude on January 20, 2014, 10:09:28 PM

ya , Im gonna trust software from a guy with 4 posts.

Just do what he says and examine all the source code first Wink

..... like anyone is going to do that just to run something that displays coin prices. I can go to any website to do that and not risk having my system infected.

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ya , Im gonna trust software from a guy with 4 posts.

empoweoqwj

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I'd stick to Chrome and Firefox. How many coiners do you guess use Explorer? Wink

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Thats weird ! Can you install other applications\extensions from the Chrome Store ?
Maybe the links I posted are not good, you can manually search for our extensions on the Chrome Store by searching the "TheTrollBox".

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Won't install.

"Could not create Download Folder"

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