Google got duped by a fake ad blocker, and 37,000 people accidentally downloaded adware
Some 37,000 people downloaded a spam version of the “AdBlock Plus” extension from Google after a fraudulent ad blocking extension snuck through Google Chrome’s verification process and appeared in the Chrome Web Store yesterday. It’s easy to see why Google (and some 37,000 people) were tricked — the developer who packaged the adware into an…