Ars Technica

Chrome’s new ad-blocker-limiting extension platform will launch in 2023

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 ...
Ars Technica

Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

Google’s war on ad blockers is just gearing up, with YouTube doing its best to detect and block ad blockers and Chrome aiming to roll out the ad block-limiting Manifest V3 extension platform in June ...
Bleeping Computer

Over 37,000 Chrome Users Installed a Fake AdBlock Plus Extension

Google has removed a malicious extension from its Chrome Web Store that posed as the popular AdBlock Plus ad blocker but forcibly opened new tabs to show ads to users. As the researcher points out in ...
Android Authority

Fake AdBlock Plus Chrome extension got 37,000 downloads before takedown

A fake AdBlock Plus extension made its way to Chrome’s official Web Store and was downloaded 37,000 times by users across the globe. Google removed the listing after it was spotted by a security ...
CNET

Here comes the Google Chrome change that worries ad blocker creators

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 ...