> What’s interesting here is that HoverZoom was discussed more than a year ago on Reddit regarding its gathering of user data. They even went out with an official statement on their website denying that the third-party scripts they used at that time were collecting any personal data, a statement that is 100% false with the current state of their extension. The problem could actually be that HoverZoom haven’t even realized what the tracking script they are using actually does due to the auto update solution it is utilizing.
From what I remember it was essentially malware… but that has been going on for at least a year so I don’t know if this is for something else. I tried some of the alternatives, but eventually I found them annoying so I switched to just using RES.
it violating google rules, but i dont know which rule.
I use [this](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imagus/immpkjjlgappgfkkfieppnmlhakdmaab?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog) for now.
These should help explain what happened…
[https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1t4ubn/hoverzoom_for_chrome_is_infected_with_malware/](https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1t4ubn/hoverzoom_for_chrome_is_infected_with_malware/)
[http://labs.detectify.com/post/133528218381/chrome-extensions-aka-total-absence-of-privacy](http://labs.detectify.com/post/133528218381/chrome-extensions-aka-total-absence-of-privacy)
> What’s interesting here is that HoverZoom was discussed more than a year ago on Reddit regarding its gathering of user data. They even went out with an official statement on their website denying that the third-party scripts they used at that time were collecting any personal data, a statement that is 100% false with the current state of their extension. The problem could actually be that HoverZoom haven’t even realized what the tracking script they are using actually does due to the auto update solution it is utilizing.
From what I remember it was essentially malware… but that has been going on for at least a year so I don’t know if this is for something else. I tried some of the alternatives, but eventually I found them annoying so I switched to just using RES.