Tag: chrome extensions
Adware vendors buy Chrome extensions to inject ads and malware
Ars Technica reports on adware vendors buying over Chrome extensions and then injecting ads and malware into the browsers of existing users. Google is aware of the issue, stating that it will be changing its extension policy in June this year to allow only single-purpose extensions. So for the time being, either you live with…
Google updates Chrome Web Store policy to keep Chrome extensions simple
Google announced an update to the Chrome Web Store policy to only allow single-purpose extensions. Existing extensions that has multiple functions might have to be split into different extensions. To keep with our principle of simplicity, we decided to take a different approach. Chrome extensions would be simple and single-purpose in nature, and each would…