Starting January 2021, developers of Chrome extensions will have to certify their data use and privacy practices and provide information about the data collected by the extension(s), “in clear and easy to understand language,” in the extension’s detail page in the Chrome Web Store. “We are also introducing an additional policy focused on limiting how […]
Google has announced a number of security changes in the Chrome extensions system: a more thorough extensions review process, better user controls, and a new manifest that should provide stronger security, privacy, and performance guarantees. The Chrome Web Store will also no longer allow extensions with obfuscated code and, starting next year, Google will require […]
A vulnerability in the Grammarly Chrome and Firefox extensions allowed websites to read users’ authentication tokes and use them to log in to the users’ Grammarly accounts.
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