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Re:37k Chrome users downloaded a fake Adblock Plus extension by styfle on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @06:29AM (#15440701)
Google should make the extension name case insensitive like domain names. That should help a little bit.
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Re:37k Chrome users downloaded a fake Adblock Plus extension by marindez on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @07:29AM (#15440902)
Then people will use cyrillic letters, etc. That approach simply does not work.
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Re:37k Chrome users downloaded a fake Adblock Plus extension by styfle on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:17PM (#15443001)
Yeah its a problem for domain names too: https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2017/idn-phishing/
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