Google has banned a Chrome extension called “Coincidence Detector,” which automatically identified Jewish people online by placing a set of three parentheses around their names wherever they appeared on a webpage.
The brackets, known as (((echoes))), are an anti-Semitic punctuation-based code that has been used increasingly online by the alt-right internet community to mark people for abuse, as reported recently by Mic.
The extension’s description in the Chrome store sarcastically explained that its purpose was to “help you detect total coincidences about who has been involved in certain political movements and media empires.”
Google has said the extension was blocked because it violated the company’s hate speech rules.
Read more in the Sydney Morning Herald