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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chrome is the undisputed king of the browser space, but the peasants are revolting over its shift to a new browser extension standard. Manifest V3 has left popular ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin ...

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 ...

The popular Twitch AdBlock extension has been removed from both Chrome Web Store and Firefox Addons site. Twitch AdBlock was the choice of extension among Twitch users for restricting ads when using ...

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