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This extension was removed from the Chrome Web Store as malware. Do not install it.Extension: Reader View Plus

CRITICAL RISKRemoved from Chrome Web Store

Reader View Plus

ID: gjhmajellcaeediogokhjjgffojhcnkb

Could be malicious

Supported Languages

🇧🇩Bengali

🇧🇷Brazilian Portuguese

🇬🇧British English

🇧🇬Bulgarian

🇪🇸Catalan

🇨🇳Chinese (Simplified)

🇹🇼Chinese (Traditional)

🇭🇷Croatian

🇨🇿Czech

🇩🇰Danish

🇳🇱Dutch

🇺🇸English

🇪🇪Estonian

🇵🇭Filipino

🇫🇮Finnish

🇫🇷French

🇩🇪German

🇬🇷Greek

🇮🇳Gujarati

🇮🇳Hindi

🇭🇺Hungarian

🇮🇩Indonesian

🇮🇹Italian

🇯🇵Japanese

🇰🇷Korean

🇱🇻Latvian

🇱🇹Lithuanian

🇲🇾Malay

🇮🇳Malayalam

🇮🇳Marathi

🇳🇴Norwegian

🇵🇱Polish

🇵🇹Portuguese

🇷🇴Romanian

🇷🇺Russian

🇷🇸Serbian

🇸🇰Slovak

🇸🇮Slovenian

🇪🇸Spanish

🇸🇪Swedish

🇮🇳Tamil

🇮🇳Telugu

🇹🇭Thai

🇹🇷Turkish

🇺🇸US English

🇻🇳Vietnamese

Extension Info & Metadata

Status

Removed

Version

0.3.8

Size

0.16 MB

Rating

4.7/5

Reviews

Users

543,388

Type

Extension

Updated

Oct 27, 2020

Publisher Contextual Analysis

Author: Rebecca HerzogView Profile
MX records exist: Yes
Domain exists: Yes
Is disposable: No
Is role-based: No
Mailbox exists: Yes

Total Extensions

Active

Obsolete

Listed

Unlisted

Total Users

543,388

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Read without distractions. Remove visual clutter from articles.

Reader View Plus enables reading mode (distraction-free mode) on the web pages. It removes clutter, unnecessary styling elements, background, and even ads from the articles. Features: ⭐ Reading mode - formats articles in the same style ⭐ Four color/font presets ⭐ Customizable view: fonts, size, colors - see screenshots! ⭐ Automatically activates if you return to the site

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Extracted Data

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By severity

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High2

Medium5

Low0

Versions scanned

Showing 2 of 2 scanned versions with more than one unique finding. Counts are unique findings that include each version.

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
0.3.8 Code review	3
0.3.7 Code review	4

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
0.3.8	3
0.3.7	4

Files with findings

6 distinct paths — top paths by unique finding count:

reader/index.js2
content.js1
events.js1
manifest.json1
preferences.js1
reader/index.html1

S.No.	Category	Severity	File	Summary	Found in Version
1	Obfuscation	high	preferences.js (line 74)	This is an obfuscated bootstrap for Google Tag Manager. It dynamically reconstructs `gtm.js`, derives `https://www.googletagmanager.com` from the manifest CSP, and appends a new element based on the first DOM node's t…	0.3.8
2	Remote Code Loading	high	manifest.json (line 4)	The extension explicitly relaxes its CSP to allow remote scripts from Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Google APIs. In combination with the loader in `preferences.js`, this enables runtime loading of off-stor…	0.3.8
3	Code Injection	medium	reader/index.js (line 455)	The extension takes HTML extracted from arbitrary web pages (`article.content`) and writes it directly into an extension-controlled iframe document. If the readability extraction misses hostile markup or dangerous URL…	0.3.8
4	Tracking	medium	reader/index.html (line 5)	The Reader View page loads external CSS resources from Google Fonts, cdnjs.cloudflare.com, and stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com on every invocation. Every time a user opens Reader View, HTTP requests are sent to these third…	0.3.7
5	Tracking	medium	reader/index.js (line 6)	Every time Reader View preferences are applied (including on initial load), a CSS @import is dynamically injected into the reader iframe that makes a fresh request to fonts.googleapis.com. This means Google Fonts rece…	0.3.7
6	Unauthorized Data Collection	medium	content.js (line 1)	This content script runs on every page the user visits (matching <all_urls> with all_frames:true) and queries chrome.storage.sync using the full page URL as a key. Over time this builds a URL-indexed record in Chrome …	0.3.7
7	Unauthorized Data Collection	medium	events.js (line 129)	When the user opens Reader View on any page, the full URL of that tab is written to chrome.storage.sync with value 1. Combined with the content.js pattern, this means the extension maintains a persistent, synced (cros…	0.3.7

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URLs

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www.w3.org	/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd	http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd
www.w3.org	/1999/xhtml	http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
cdnjs.cloudflare.com	/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css	https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com	/bootstrap/4.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css	https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css
fonts.googleapis.com	/css2	https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=IBM+Plex+Sans&display=swap
fonts.googleapis.com	/css2	https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cairo&display=swap
jquery.com	-	http://jquery.com
fonts.googleapis.com	/css2	https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=IBM+Plex+Sans:wght@400;500;700&family=IBM+Plex+Serif:wght@400;500;700&family=Montserrat:wght@400;700&family=Zilla+Slab:wght@400;500&display=swap
www.w3.org	/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd	http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd
www.w3.org	/2000/svg	http://www.w3.org/2000/svg

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2.3.3.3	IPv4	-
2.3.3.1	IPv4	-

4.8 out of 5 · 10 most recent reviews

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Number 1 extension which I looking for a long time. Now I can print the webpage in correct format without noisy frames and no more fight for Chrome reader mode.

Babu Chang·28 Jul 2021

Absolutely amazing extension! Simple and fully functional.

Vasileios Pyrgos·18 Jul 2021

recién probando. Su politica de privacidad está respetable, a diferencia de otros. La extensión va funcionando bien. La recomiendo.

El detective Yoshi·7 Jul 2021

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Security Alert: Confirmed Malware

Reader View Plus

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Code Review Findings Summary Across 2 Versions7

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