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Google wants to make Chrome Extensions more secure
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Quote:Google announced a number of changes to Google Chrome's extensions system designed to make the use of extensions more secure.
The company has been in a constant battle against misuse of extensions that are either outright malicious or problematic from a privacy perspective.
Yesterday's announcement is the next step to make extension use securer. I reviewed the option to limit extensions with unlimited access to site data yesterday already. Chrome users may set extensions to "click to activate" or to a subset of sites they activate automatically starting with Chrome 70.
Full reading: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/10/02/google...re-secure/
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