Security firm Socket says it found over 300 Chrome extensions that quietly swap a user’s default search engine and route every search through servers controlled by the people behind them before it reaches Bing or Yahoo. Even more alarming, these extensions have reportedly racked up roughly 13.4 million installs over the past decade. The trick is almost embarrassingly simple. Chrome has a built in setting that lets an extension swap your default search engine without running a single line...

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