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The "mystery" company behind the extensions is Genimous, parent company of Polarity Technologies. Polarity owns the extension referenced in the Awake blog post: https://awakesecuri…

Update: Medium has restored the article. The Chinese troll army failed to suppress the news for long. Please see a screenshot of the full article here: https://imgur.com/a/uJxate0 …

They use Bing for their search results and ads. Microsoft does all the work to onboard advertisers.

These extensions do not simply change the default search in the browser. They actively hijack searches on the Google and Bing homepages. Test it yourself in a sandbox. A user who l…

Google Ads allow audience targeting based on user interests or affinity groups. This is inferred using past Google searches and pages visited. An advertiser can add as many of thes…