HERE'S HOW HUCKSTERS ARE MANIPULATING GOOGLE TO PROMOTE SHADY CHROME EXTENSIONS

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Researchers have discovered that some developers are exploiting a loophole in Google's Chrome Web Store to promote shady extensions through keyword manipulation. They achieve this by hiding thousands of irrelevant keywords in lesser-used language translations within extension descriptions, manipulating search results to prioritize their extensions over legitimate ones.