Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't(vitonsky.net)

113 points by vitonsky 3 years ago | 78 comments

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users(kenklippenstein.com)

62 points by duxup 8 months ago | 14 comments

Firefox users may import Chrome extensions now(ghacks.net)

35 points by goplayoutside 3 years ago | 13 comments

Polymorphic Chrome Extensions Impersonate Password Managers to Steal Credentials(cyberinsider.com)

5 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 1 comments

South Korea bans new DeepSeek AI downloads(bbc.com)

13 points by Erikun 1 year ago | 2 comments

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension(bleepingcomputer.com)

985 points by Timofeibu 5 months ago | 430 comments

BleepingComputer news article reporting that GitHub confirmed a breach of about 3,800 internal repositories via a malicious VSCode extension.

Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO(webiterate.dev)

606 points by twapi 1 month ago | 459 comments

Blog post reporting that Google removed all remaining Manifest V2 extensions, including uBlock Origin, from the Chrome Web Store.

Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads(theconversation.com)

454 points by ed_westin 3 years ago | 323 comments

The Conversation article explaining Google Chrome's new ad-targeting and tracking system (Privacy Sandbox) and what users need to know about it.

Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update(0x44.xyz)

941 points by deryilz 1 year ago | 816 comments

Blog post describing a Chrome bug that let extensions keep using webRequestBlocking to bypass Manifest V3's restrictions on adblockers.

Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners(github.com)

714 points by ben_s 2 years ago | 269 comments

GitHub repository for Under New Management, a Chrome extension that detects when installed Chrome extensions have changed owners.

DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome(bloomberg.com)

1052 points by redm 1 year ago | 1198 comments

Bloomberg article reporting that the US Justice Department will push Google to sell its Chrome browser to break its search monopoly, plus data licensing and AI measures.

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings(lapcatsoftware.com)

508 points by ExMachina73 1 month ago | 89 comments

Jeff Johnson's blog post reporting that Chrome 152 again exempts Google-owned sites from the user setting to delete site data, six years after a similar bug.