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hero member
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January 22, 2014, 11:47:13 PM
#14
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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January 22, 2014, 07:00:05 PM
#13
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.
hero member
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January 21, 2014, 05:36:13 AM
#12
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  Smiley
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  Smiley

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)  Smiley

And you aren't open sourcing yet because ? ...
newbie
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January 21, 2014, 05:24:26 AM
#11
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  Smiley
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  Smiley

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)  Smiley
hero member
Activity: 518
Merit: 500
January 21, 2014, 05:09:41 AM
#10
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  Smiley
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  Smiley

What are the other major bitcoin forums? Just curious .....
newbie
Activity: 36
Merit: 0
January 21, 2014, 04:38:26 AM
#9
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  Smiley
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  Smiley
hero member
Activity: 518
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January 21, 2014, 12:44:33 AM
#8
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 Smiley

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

Might get the bitcoin theme though Smiley
sr. member
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January 21, 2014, 12:31:55 AM
#7
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 Smiley
hero member
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January 20, 2014, 11:45:59 PM
#6
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.
hero member
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January 20, 2014, 10:09:28 PM
#5
ya , Im gonna trust software from a guy with 4 posts.
hero member
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January 20, 2014, 10:06:07 PM
#4
I'd stick to Chrome and Firefox. How many coiners do you guess use Explorer? Wink
newbie
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January 20, 2014, 02:06:37 PM
#3
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".
sr. member
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January 20, 2014, 02:04:05 PM
#2
Won't install.

"Could not create Download Folder"
newbie
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January 20, 2014, 02:01:43 PM
#1
Hello bitcointalk !

I want to introduce a new company named TheTrollBox.

TheTrollBox is a small web development company that specializes in crypto currency applications\extensions.

Our first line of products are 15 Live Chrome Extension Tickers that presents the price of a given coin in real time.

We cover most of the popular exchanges (MtGox, BTC-e, Bitstamp, BTCChina, OkCoin, FXBTC, BitcoinAverage) and most of the popular coins (BTC, LTC, PPC, NMC, NVC, FTC, XPM).

More over, we can present the value of the coin in lots of FIAT currencies (USD, AUD, CAD, CHF, CNY, DKK, EUR, GBP, HKD, NZD, PLN, RUB, SGD, JPY, THB, NOK, CZK).

Stop with the F5, and free yourself to other tasks while receiving live updates about changes in the value of your coins.

Our projects source code are still not public but will be uploaded to github as an open source project in the near future.

For the meanwhile I argue all the sceptic and non believers to download our source code from the Chrome Store and check them manually, it can be easily done as explained here:

http://www.madhur.co.in/blog/2011/06/03/reverseengineerchrome.html

Pictures:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/BeSiiuiJ_R3buvqT_hpLl_TFjm83ApJ3vm5R_guDL5Q-DJ3Cgghrm5K5KSz5U1xAn07scCAS=s640-h400-e365

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/MASIMuvoHlWfsjPsB2JIvRP9uiOR0QnueWkP5y_bGyJsZOigscTsbAw2J4uu7y0YNskvHwnkTHY=s640-h400-e365

Our Extensions:

MTGox BTC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mtgox-btc-live-ticker/cngkfdlfdddhomfddifggeldhahicolm

BTC-E BTC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/btc-e-btc-live-ticker/afffimmlhiimncpbhfjjhlhgkpemepam

BTC-E LTC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/btc-e-ltc-live-ticker/bplfnllmmlniamkobmkajfjmkhhkkkkf

BTC-E PPC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/btc-e-ppc-live-ticker/gnaamhaklkiafpijggcapejjalkagaih

BTC-E NVC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/btc-e-nvc-live-ticker/phebmdffcaeimippkmcdbpenpnacmfji

BTC-E NMC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/btc-e-nmc-live-ticker/jcfdodmcklmffepfdebmfjjaglkegdjc

BTC-E FTC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/btc-e-ftc-live-ticker/gnfllhnchjphejgmhkfbnihmellekaao

BTC-E XPM: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/btc-e-xpm-live-ticker/bjnjaofckgnobeelhaeebgnpkghpddhe

Bitstamp BTC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bitstamp-btc-live-ticker/aiigmfoocedgjcheadhbahgcdlmmfjcn

BTCChina BTC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/btcchina-btc-live-ticker/bmifhffljoflmjmkdilfbbihmciblmfp

OKCoin BTC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/okcoin-btc-live-ticker/nhjaagkbkjilmiahopnocnfbbmjplfif

OKCoin LTC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/okcoin-ltc-live-ticker/adpacpkgmkegnfeggaieckpldllkbgaj

FXBTC BTC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fxbtc-btc-live-ticker/aobjeekmebdjdlkchgjijlijddjnikoj

FXBTC LTC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fxbtc-ltc-live-ticker/ekbdgbkkieelpjaadfggicnepfigkkgj

BitcoinAverage BTC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bitcoinaverage-btc-live-t/hkhpemlecgbfbohhfbcdonhkahibmgid

P.S
Our Firefox team are working on a similar set of Live Tickers for the Firefox browser.

And after that, a similar release will probably be done for Internet Explorer.

TheTrollBox
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