Google Reader Notifier puts spam advertisements in Firefox’s status bar.

Posted July 15th, 2009. Categorized under Computers. 3 Comments

I’ve always thought Google Reader Notifier was a decent extension, and I’ve liked it for a while, but today I found some mysterious blue ads in my FireFox status bar. I tried to find what the cause was, looking for any mysterious new add-on and running virus scans, but I couldn’t find out why.

After a quick Google search, I found out Google Reader Notifier was to blame. It’s really sad to see an extension developer force advertisements in like that.

If you’ve suddenly found big blue ads in your status bar, Google Reader Notifier is to blame. Disable it or uninstall it to get rid of the ad. Feel free to leave a review and show your displeasure.

I’ve recommended that extension on here before, but after finding this out I quickly changed my posts. Now, I recommend using Google Reader Watcher to manage your RSS. I’m sincerely sorry if any of you installed Notifier on my recommendation.

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3 Replies to “Google Reader Notifier puts spam advertisements in Firefox’s status bar.”

Comments:

1. Mark Slater from healthy lifestyle

July 16th, 2009 6:08 am

is that so ? i was using that too, thanks for alerting, i was using this because with single clicks, you can also open either Google Reader or any item’s original page. Optionally, Reader Notifier also stars items as you mark them read individually, okay lemme try Google reader watcher

2. Paul

July 16th, 2009 11:55 am

@Mark: Yeah, I really liked the extension as well, I’m really surprised that they put ads in it like that.

3. mark from buy bunn coffee makers

July 16th, 2009 2:34 pm

Thanks a lot Google reader notifier! I appreciate the tip on disabling it to get rid of the ad because that is really annoying.