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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. [42] [43] In 2014, Google removed two such extensions from the Chrome Web Store after many users complained about unwanted pop-up ads. [44] The following year, Google acknowledged that about five percent of visits to its own ...
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.
As of December 2024, the Chrome version of uBlock Origin had over 40 million active users and the Firefox version had over 9 million active users. [7] [8] On March 3, 2025, Google blocked uBlock Origin on the Chrome Web Store. [9] Users must manually reenable the extension to circumvent Google's block.
Adblock Plus (ABP) is a free and open-source [11] [12] browser extension for content-filtering and ad blocking.It is developed by Eyeo GmbH, a German software company.The extension has been released for Mozilla Firefox (including mobile), [13] Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Safari, Yandex Browser, and Android.
-Hackers have compromised several different companies' Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December, according to one of the victims and experts who have ...
In 2024, Stylus may have been removed from the Chrome Web Store in accordance with new policies preventing Manifest V2 extensions if it had not been updated to Manifest V3. Later that year, it was updated to be based on Manifest V3 on the Chrome Web Store, [6] but its Firefox's version remains under Manifest V2. [7]
The last update made to this extension was on April 4, 2017. Additionally, the extension was removed from the Chrome Web Store on June 1, 2022, due to its lack of updates and potential security concerns, such as requiring sensitive permissions.