You’ve heard me cover plenty of Chrome extensions that take advantage of you by mining your data. Over the past few years, Google has done its best to reign this in with a ‘Seal of approval’ on the Chrome Web Store (now completely redesigned, by the way), and more. I don’t have to tell you […]
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[U] Google’s Bard AI just got access to your Gmail, Drive, and more with these new extensions
Ever wished your AI companion could delve deep into your Google toolkit and help you knit everything together? Disappointed by how much Google Assistant sucks at doing this? Well, you probably remember Bard, Google’s fix, or rather, its likely soon-to-be replacement for Assistant’s internals in the near future. When it launched, not everyone was that […]
Continue ReadingChrome’s Safety Check feature will soon tell you if your browser extensions are compromised
Starting with Chrome 117, Google’s Safety Check feature will flag extensions that are no longer safe for you to keep installed. Here’s how it works – Chrome will proactively highlight extensions that have been unpublished by the developer, have been taken down for violating the Chrome Web Store policy, or that were flagged as malware. […]
Continue ReadingGoogle’s Bard prepares to add extensions, giving you useful travel and shopping power ups
Google’s Bard has often found itself relegated to being the last resort for AI chatbot aficionados. This could be due to a multitude of reasons, and many could argue that it comes down to a user’s preference or disdain for one of the major tech giant over another. However, there’s no denying that Bard has […]
Continue ReadingChrome Extensions take too much work to toggle on and off, and it needs to change
I was installing the Dark Reader Chrome extension for late-night Google Docs work yesterday and I noticed something that hadn’t quite annoyed me until now. You see, most of the time when I install an extension, it stays on indefinitely. However, with something like Dark Reader, I like to toggle it on and off during […]
Continue ReadingChrome is about to get a kill switch toggle to help you troubleshoot problematic extensions
I’m sure I don’t have to tell you how frustrating it is when extensions start misbehaving or causing issues with your browsing session. To date, the only way to identify which one is screwing things up and trying to ruin your day is to uninstall them one by one and then reinstall them all over […]
Continue Reading3 Chrome Extensions to help you save big on Cyber Monday
Just in case you weren’t aware or you’ve completely ignored your inbox for the past few days, it’s Cyber Monday. What does that mean? Well, it means that retailers are trying to ride the Black Friday wave for as long as they can to get you to spend more money in their stores and on […]
Continue ReadingThese 30 malicious Chrome extensions just showed their true colors, affecting millions
A new campaign of malicious Chrome extensions was just uncovered by a Guardio Labs research report called “Dormant Colors”. It’s a large campaign with 30 extensions and millions of active installations across the globe. You may or may not have installed one of these on your Chrome browser or Chromebook, so check out the list […]
Continue ReadingUninstall these 5 malicious Chrome extensions that know where you live and where you sleep
Despite the fact that we continue to have bad actor Chrome extensions pop up in the Web Store, Google has done a ton to mitigate it over the past year. From adding new requirements for how developers must use your data to adding a seal of approval for anyone who respects that data and doesn’t […]
Continue ReadingChrome Web Store to issue two new badges for extensions that are trustworthy
Bad actor extensions on the Chrome Web Store have run rampant for far too long, promising to utilize user data only for the intended purpose, and then breaking that promise and misusing it for personal gain or malicious intent. Now that Manifest V3 has become the standard though, Google has limited its ability to do […]
Continue ReadingHere are 5 of the best Chrome extensions for enhancing your YouTube experience
Over the course of 2021, I’ve come to realize how addicted I am to Youtube. This may be a controversial statement, but I’ll stick to it – Youtube is Google’s most successful and best social network, and with how quickly video is becoming the standard media type for consumption, it’s clearly on track to win […]
Continue Reading3 top Chrome VPN extensions for 2021
A quick search on the Chrome Web Store can give us hundreds of results for VPNs. Some of those services can be as malicious as the sites we’re trying to protect ourselves from when online. It is hard to know which VPN extensions are safe, secure, and easy to use. To help you choose, here […]
Continue ReadingChrome extensions will be much safer by 2023 when Google plans to fully snuff out MV2
At the beginning of the year, Google finally implemented the controversial Manifest v3 for extensions which was created to solve a problem with privacy and data abuse among many other things. After popular tab suspension tool The Great Suspender went rogue after changing hands (this was just one example), Chrome finally decided to do something […]
Continue ReadingGoogle is coming down on spammy Chrome extensions by requiring devs to enable 2FA
Google has been trying very much to clean up the cesspool that is the Chrome Web Store as of late. In just the past year alone, it’s created a new ‘seal of approval’ for extensions that respect user privacy and data, has introduced new protections against downloading malicious extensions, stopped them from sharing processes to […]
Continue ReadingGoogle, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla band together to make extensions safer
This week, W3C announced that it was launching the WebExtensions Community Group (WECG) in collaboration with several of the largest tech corporations. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are banding together to achieve better standardization of web extensions. This means that extensions for Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox will one day be safer and easier to […]
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