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I just tried to get it. All alarmbells going off here.

First it wants your email address to install, then you have to 'pay with a tweet' or 'pay with a facebook post'

Thankfully it's shoddy programming, you can dismiss the facebook post page without publishing and click the download link:

http://1.upld.to/Gd9

Will verify this first though, could be something scary...




Update: It's safe. It just swaps the user-agent header on all web requests for the Internet Explorer 8.0 one.

My quick de-obfuscation effort:

chrome["webRequest"]["onBeforeSendHeaders"]["addListener"](function (a) { var b = a["requestHeaders"]; b[forEach](function (c, d) { if (c["name"]["toLowerCase"]() =="user-agent") { c["value"] = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0)",; }; }); return { requestHeaders: b }; }, { urls: ["http://mail.google.com/*", "https://mail.google.com/*", types: ["main_frame", "sub_frame"] }, ["blocking", requestHeaders]);

Installed it, performs as advertised.




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