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Google Hates Ad Blockers: Manifest V3 Push Starts Today

We warned you. As of June 3, Google is following through on its threat to kill ad blockers. Privacy-focused Chrome extensions are living on borrowed time; developers must upgrade to the less ...

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Google to Force-Block Ad Blockers — Time to Get Firefox?

Richi Jennings | November 17, 2023 | ad blockers, ad-blocker, ad-blocking, adblock, adblockers, adblocking, adblocks, adtech, Advertising and AdTech, Chrome, Chrome extension, chrome extensions, google, Manifest V3, SB Blogwatch, uBlock Origin

Manifest V3: Destiny. Huge advertising monopoly flexes muscles: “Manifest V2” extensions to be nuked, but “V3” cripples ad blockers ...

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Chrome Extensions Warning — Millions of Users Infected

Richi Jennings | June 5, 2023 | Chrome, Chrome extension, chrome extensions, chrome store malware, Chrome Web Store, google, Malware, Privacy, SB Blogwatch

Malware Déjà Vu: Perhaps as many as 87 million victims—maybe more ...

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Is Your Browser Extension a Botnet Backdoor?

BrianKrebs | March 1, 2021 | A Little Sunshine, chrome extensions, chrome-stats.com, Cisco Systems, crxcavator.io, extendbalanc, Hao Nguyen, HolaVPN, Infatica, iNinja VPN, Luminati, ModHeader, The Coming Storm, Vladimir M. Fomenko

A company that rents out access to more than 10 million Web browsers so that clients can hide their true Internet addresses has built its network by paying browser extension makers to ...

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