Google updated Chrome Web Store rules, limiting data collection, expanding disclosures, restricting AI bypass extensions, ...

A rare privacy win for Chrome users ...

Google is tightening Chrome extension rules with stricter privacy requirements, AI safeguards, and new bans on prediction market tools.

Google today updated the Chrome Web Store's spam policy to block extension spam so that users can have a real chance to avoid potentially malicious extensions while sifting through 200,000 add-ons ...

A malicious extension in the Chrome Web Store is masquerading as the Perplexity AI answer engine, intercepting search traffic and collecting browsing information.

It sounds counterintuitive, but hear me out. If you’re looking for a new browser extension to try, or you want to download one that has been recommended to you, stop using the Chrome Web Store to look ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

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 ...

Island found dormant JavaScript injection paths in Adblock for YouTube, a Chrome extension with 10M+ installs, raising ...