Phony 'Google Home App For PC' Chrome extension suckers in thousands of users - Android

There's no way to control a Google Assistant-powered smart home from a Windows PC, at least not yet. That's a problem, not just from the perspective of users, but for Google's ecosystem as a whole. Take this "Google Home App For PC" Chrome extension as an example—while it brazenly uses the official Google Home logo and has generic Google Home screenshots, it's merely a link to a sketchy website instructing you to install the Bluestacks emulator and then the Home app for Android.

Phony 'Google Home App For PC' Chrome extension suckers in thousands of users was written by the awesome team at Android Police.