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4+ million installs for "Search Encrypt" which seems to fill the 1/2 half of the results page with advertisements. But, you get the benefit of "SSL encryption"

• ocdtrekkie 7y ago
  Search Encrypt is malware[0], and it's install base are generally not consensual users. I've seen it around for a very long time, and Google isn't doing anything about it. New Tab-hijacking extensions are incredibly pervasive in the Chrome Web Store, and often installed via malicious websites which use arrows and audio cues to demand a user click the "Install" button Chrome pops up in order to resume web browsing. MapsGalaxy is another particularly pervasive malware offering: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mapsgalaxy/ijjnmdphpnlnelhbhefnfmimenjgbfcn https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mapsgalaxy/ijjnmdp... (Just adding this one here in case someone from Google sees this comment and can nuke both from orbit.) [0] https://blog.malwarebytes.com/detections/rogue-searchencrypt/ https://blog.malwarebytes.com/detections/rogue-searchencrypt... and any search result should give you some idea: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=search+encrypt&t=ffab&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=search+encrypt&t=ffab&ia=web