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Want more ads on your web pages? Try the AdBoost extension


Come on, admit it. You like seeing banner ads on your favorite web pages, because they provide a nice break from reading text. If you're honest about this feeling, there's a new extension for you.

AdBoost is an extension for Chromium-based web browsers that adds more ads to websites, something of a departure from the many ad blocking extensions that exist.

Generally, when extensions inject ads, that's the result of malware, or to use Google's prior litigation-shy language, "unwanted software," a term that has since evolved into the even more timid phrase "potentially unwanted programs."

"Ad injectors are programs that insert new ads, or replace existing ones, into the pages you visit while browsing the web," Google said back on March 31, 2015. "We've received more than 100,000 complaints from Chrome users about ad injection since the beginning of 2015 – more than network errors ...


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