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On January 6, 2019, Opera banned the Tampermonkey extension from being installed through the Chrome Web Store, claiming it had been identified as malicious. [7] Later, Bleeping Computer was able to determine that a piece of adware called Gom Player would install the Chrome Web Store version of Tampermonkey and likely utilize the extension to facilitate the injection of ads or other malicious ...
As of June 2012, there were 750 million total installs of content hosted on Chrome Web Store. [5] Some extension developers have sold their extensions to third-parties who then incorporated adware. [6] [7] In 2014, Google removed two such extensions from Chrome Web Store after many users complained about unwanted pop-up ads. [8]
Some Google Chrome extension developers have sold their extensions to third-parties who then incorporated adware. [41] [42] In 2014, Google removed two such extensions from the Chrome Web Store after many users complained about unwanted pop-up ads. [43] The following year, Google acknowledged that about five percent of visits to its own ...
The initial objective was to "remove any and all analytics, and return to a more user-friendly UI." [4] It restored the user interface of Stylish 1.5.2 [5] [2] and removed Google Analytics. [1] [2] In 2024, Stylus may be removed from the Chrome Web Store in accordance to new policies preventing Manifest V2 extensions, if they do not update to ...
uBlock Origin (/ ˈ j uː b l ɒ k / YOO-blok [5]) is a free and open-source browser extension for content filtering, including ad blocking.The extension is available for Chromium, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Pale Moon, as well as versions of Safari before 13 and Google Chrome before December 2024.
Google Chrome Apps, or commonly just Chrome Apps, were a certain type of non-standardized web application that ran on the Google Chrome web browser. Chrome apps could be obtained from the Chrome Web Store along with various free and paid apps, extensions , and themes.
ungoogled-chromium is a free and open-source variant of the Chromium web browser that removes all Google-specific web services. [5] [6] [7] It achieves this with a series of patches applied to the Chromium codebase during the compilation process. The result is functionally similar to regular Chromium. [8] [9]
Fluff Busting Purity, or FB Purity for short (previously known as Facebook Purity) is a web browser extension designed to customize the Facebook website's user interface and add extra functionality. [1] Developed by Steve Fernandez, a UK-based programmer, it was first released in 2009 as a Greasemonkey script, [2] as donationware. [3]