If you are using the Video Ad-Block for Twitch extension, you should uninstall it right away. So it is not surprising that Google and Mozilla have banned the extension from their extensions repositories. Both of these things violate some policies, and considered malware. It's not just that, the add-on is actually redirecting requests made to Amazon.UK, without the user being aware of this. The extension's developer could earn a commission, when someone buys a product after clicking the affiliate URLs. Some users spotted that product listings on Amazon.UK ended with a referral tag "aradb-21", which the browser plugin began injecting. More specifically, the extension wanted to "Read and change your data on all Amazon sites".
What followed was worse, the add-on had been updated, and requested new permissions. Here is a web archive page of the original repo. The GitHub page for the Video Ad-Block for Twitch extension has vanished, which was the first bad sign. The add-on, which was available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, had over 600,000 users.
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