Raymond Hill, the developer of uBlock Origin and uMatrix, raised concerns on Tuesday via the Chromium bug tracker that upcoming changes to certain Chrome APIs would mean his extensions can "no longer ...

Google has removed today two extensions from the Chrome Web Store. The two extensions were fully functional ad blockers, but they tried to deceive users by using the names of other more reputable ad ...

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 ...

Google’s journey toward Chrome’s “Manifest V3” has been happening for four years now, and if the company’s new timeline holds up, we’ll all be forced to switch to it in year 5. “Manifest V3” is the ...

Since January, we’ve been following a set of major changes to extensions on Google Chrome, called Manifest V3, which includes a controversial rework of how ad blockers are expected to function. In ...

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 ...

I block ads (despite the hypocrisy) and you probably do too if you’re tech-literate enough to read PCWorld on the regular. So ...

A malvertising campaign is using a fake ad-blocking Chrome and Edge extension named NexShield that intentionally crashes the ...

A malicious ad-blocking extension on Chrome and Edge known as NexShield is using the ClickFix attack to infect devices with a ...

ClickFix variant CrashFix relies on a malicious Chrome extension to crash the browser and trick victims into installing the ...

Open Google Chrome: Launch the Google Chrome browser on your computer. Access Extensions: Click on the three vertical dots in the top-right corner to open the Chrome menu. Navigate to "More tools" and ...