In an effort to tamp down data collection by third-party ad-blocking Chrome extensions, Google today announced that it intends to replace parts of Chrome’s Web Request API, a set of events and ...

Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting complete and extended conversations from users’ AI ...

With the introduction of Manifest V3, Google's latest extensions software, some Chrome extensions have been removed from its ...

Malicious Chrome and Edge extensions collected browsing history, keystrokes and personal data from millions of users before ...

How much extra work could you get done over the course of a day if you had an assistant looking over your shoulder, shooing you away from the biggest time-sucks of the Internet like Facebook and ...

Once upon a time, OK not so long ago, browsers such as Chrome and Firefox fought for supremacy over browser extensions. That war has seemingly simmered down but the remnants threaten the security of ...

It is no longer planning to begin turning off the old extensions standard in January and says the rest of the timeline is ‘under review.’ It is no longer planning to begin turning off the old ...

Over the past 18 months, Google has pushed to improve Chrome extension security—a welcome goal given the sketchy morass of extensions that have been out there for years. But one proposed change ...

As if we didn’t have enough reasons to move away from Chrome, Google has doubled down on changes that negatively affect how content-blocking browser extensions—including ad blockers—work in Chrome.

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. There’s a growing split over how much room browsers should leave for ad blocking — and Chrome and Firefox have ...

This article will help you prevent users from installing extensions in Google Chrome. You can disable all currently installed extensions, block new extension ...