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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

‘AdBlock’ and ‘uBlock’ impersonate legitimate extensions but instead engage in cookie stuffing to defraud affiliate marketing programs, a researcher has found. Google has removed two malicious ad ...

Bottom line: After years of delaying the adoption of Manifest V3, Google is now moving forward and accelerating the process. Soon, users will have to choose between accepting Chrome's inferior ...

Chrome on Android still lacks extension support, despite other browsers offering this feature.

The AllBlock Chromium ad blocking extension has been found to be injecting hidden affiliate links that generate commissions for the developers. This extension is still available on Chrome's Web Store ...