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| Mobile Minute: Google has pulled two Chrome extensions from the Internet after they were hijacked by marketers. Chrome extensions are free downloads that add capabilities to Google Chrome. Many extensions are created by developers who want to share useful applications with others. But lately some entrepreneurs have been buying Chrome extensions or trying to pay the developers to insert advertising. In two cases, those deals resulted in ads that violated Google’s terms of service, so the software was pulled. The two affected extensions are Add to Feedly and Tweet this Page. Both of these extensions have fewer than 100,000 users. Over the weekend another Chrome extension called Honey, which has more than 700,000 users, said it had been approached with buyout offers from data collections firms and malware companies. Honey declined those offers. | Other top stories:
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