Island found dormant JavaScript injection paths in Adblock for YouTube, a Chrome extension with 10M+ installs, raising ...

Google's Chrome Web Store is now warning that the uBlock Origin ad blocker and other extensions may soon be blocked as part of the company's deprecation of the Manifest V2 extension specification.

Adblock for YouTube has over 11 million installations. However, it can inject script code into any page uncontrollably.

Chrome has started removing workarounds that let users enable Manifest V2 support and install extensions like uBlock Origin.

Popular extensions like uBlock Origin, which are based on the Manifest V2 framework, will encounter compatibility problems with Chrome’s transition to Manifest V3. Google Chrome is prompting users to ...

Adblock Plus is one of the most popular extensions for Chrome with more than 10 million users and 150,000 glowing reviews. However, a spammer was recently able to infiltrate the Chrome web store with ...

Do you use Google’s Chrome browser on your PC or Mac to visit websites? And if so, do you have an ad blocker installed? If you’ve not been paying attention to the recent cries of pain from the makers ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered several malicious Google Chrome extensions that hijack Amazon affiliate links, steal data, and collect ChatGPT authentication tokens. In late January, Socket ...

A Chrome ad blocker with more than 10 million installs has reopened an old browser security debate. The tool may work as promised, but researchers say its design leaves room for a much riskier outcome ...