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Unofficial mirror of this extension in the MS Edge extension store #3900

boarnoah posted onGitHub

Noticed that the Refined Github extension on the MS Edge store (https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/) is by a third party who seems to be mirroring extensions off the chrome store while adding a home page redirect to their own site.

Reported it as abuse the MS Store, I thought you folks might be a bit interested in knowing.

<details> <summary>I got its source</summary>

Link:

// https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/refined-github/hcjnhfcilhlgjbneobbbefooajhmnkfg

Download source: https://edge.microsoft.com/extensionwebstorebase/v1/crx?response=redirect&prod=chromiumcrx&prodchannel=&x=id%3Dhcjnhfcilhlgjbneobbbefooajhmnkfg%26installsource%3Dondemand%26uc Extract .crx file with: https://crxextractor.com Download same version from Chrome store: https://www.crx4chrome.com/crx/227988/

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Not only does it link to its own site, it sets the new_tab page to it! It's ridiculous that they allowed an obvious scam (err… "unrelated feature") through.

Thanks for the issue, I'll report it too.

posted by fregante about 4 years ago

If you have the chance to do so, please leave a negative review about this too, until it's removed.

posted by fregante about 4 years ago

It was finally dropped

posted by fregante about 4 years ago

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