May 27 - TOP 10 Extensions with more 😒 fake installations in the last 🕓 24 hours - 😈 Bad practices in Chrome Web Store

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Julio Marin Torres

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May 27, 2020, 5:13:30 AM5/27/20
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😈 Bad practices in Chrome Web Store


"TOP 10 Extensions with more 😒 fake installations in the last 🕓 24 hours"


📈 Simple list TOP 10 extensions with the highest rise of "Fake installations" within the Chrome Store in the last 24 hours:



Ranking

Icon

Extension name

Active users

+ Fake users added in 24h

% Increase

1

Bugatti Vs Lamborghini Wallpaper HD New Tab300,000+ 89,083 🔼 😒+ 85.7%

2

Roblox Wallpaper HD Custom New Tab512,037+ 179,971 🔼 😒+ 77.6%

3

Custom Cursor1,000,000+ 223,022 🔼 😒+ 30.0%

4

Space Wallpaper HD Custom New Tab30,381+ 6,713 🔼 😒+ 28.4%

5

UltraBlock4,235,658+ 869,797 🔼 😒+ 25.8%

6

NOtifications Manager1,646,069+ 298,413 🔼 😒+ 22.1%

7

Anime Wallpaper HD Custom New Tab873,557+97,718 🔼 😒+ 12.6%

9

Super Cars - Sports Cars Wallpaper HD New Tab1,034,096+ 102,183 🔼 😒+ 11.0%

9

Halloween 2019 HD Wallpapers New Tab Themes568,806+ 50,279 🔼 😒+ 9.7%

10

Cherry Blossom HD Wallpapers New Tab Themes571,792+ 50,036 🔼 😒+ 9.6%

The following information shown is valid only for today. (If you're curious, check out the active users of these same extensions tomorrow and maybe see big changes.)

All these extensions violate the Developer Program Policies (*) to Chrome Store.


(*) User Ratings, Reviews, and Installs: Developers must not attempt to manipulate the placement of any extensions in the Chrome Web Store. This includes, but is not limited to, inflating product ratings, reviews, or install counts by illegitimate means, such as fraudulent or incentivized downloads, reviews and ratings.


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If you need more information about this, you can read this article 👀 or see and comment this following topics in Google Groups:


"Cheating the Chrome Store" Technique of "active users" or "fake active users". This is serious.
If you are a Chrome Store developer, this is important and serious. "This is bad for everyone"
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Julio Marin Torres

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May 27, 2020, 9:56:20 AM5/27/20
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Other interesting details for this topic:

I see that most extensions or accounts with fraudulent installs come from developers from Russia.

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