![]() ![]() ![]() Weekly Android Apps also reached its tentacles into mobile devices without permission. I didn’t ask for this extension to be installed, and there was no notification that it was being installed, yet it just showed up in my browser! I only found out about it because Chrome informed me that it was taking over my home page! How did this happen? bug that has infected my Chromebook. On Chrome I have tabs opening by themselves advertising this poker and other Play Store items saying ‘click here to install on your phone.’ I have never authorized this tab. This was installed automatically somehow, it has something to do with a. ![]() Their cries of pain included these two users’ complaints: Weekly Android Apps opened additional windows, reset the users’ home page for their browsers, repeatedly opened new tabs or windows, and popped up yet more new windows after users closed the first unwelcome new windows. The apps were installed directly onto unwitting Android devices as the extension bypassed the operating system’s permissions process.Īs far as the 200,000 user base and the 4.5-star ratings go, those actually belonged to the poor old parasitized Running Fred. In fact, developers Ali Moiz and Murtaza Hussain, who run a software outfit called Vulcun, received payola for installing some of those apps on people’s mobile Android devices – without permission, mind you. Other games also received updates for the approaching holidays, including a new HTML5 version of Bejeweled, Angry Birds with updated Christmas themes, and Cargo Bridge received a Christmas level edition.The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled a case against a pair of developers who bought a nice, mild-mannered, browser-based Chrome game called “Running Fred” and turned it into the app equivalent of a spam-spewing facehugger.Īs the FTC had said in its original complaint (PDF), the developers swapped out the 4.5-star rated game with their own extension, “Weekly Android Apps,” which they claimed was featured on sites like LifeHacker, MacRumors and Engadget, had been installed by 200,000 users, and provided “impartial, independent selection of apps.” You can also check out Sleepy Jack, Cordy, Pirates of New Horizons, Star Legends, Running Fred, and Pocket Legends. While Square Enix planned to drop the first Chrome Web Store title to take advantage of Native Client with a port of 2009’s Mini Ninjas, but it looks like award winning RPG Bastion beat them to it. However, that is not the only console quality game available in the Chrome Web Store as of today. The Native Client, according to Google, will allow developers to “build web applications that seamlessly execute native compiled code inside the browser”. In other words, gaming experiences on par with native applications and quickly approaching the quality of console titles. ![]() Google announced on the Chrome Blog that they are adding more console quality games to the Chrome Web Store that take advantage of the Native Client. ![]()
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