Hundreds of popular add‑ons used encrypted, URL‑sized payloads to send search queries, referrers, and timestamps to outside servers, in some cases tied to data brokers and unknown operators.

Google announced a few security-related updates to Chrome. Google announced a few security-related updates to Chrome. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in ...

Your web browser is an ecosystem of its own. It stores your passwords, search history, financial details like credit card numbers, addresses and more. Just like how ...

Google Chrome is adding a new safety check feature to Chrome 117. This feature will warn you if an extension you have installed has been removed from the Chrome Web Store. Extensions can be removed ...

In total, the analysts examined the 32.000 most popular Chrome extensions out of the 240.000 available in the Chrome Webstore. They identified 287, some of them very popular, candidates that ...

Chrome Web Store is again in the spotlight, and not for good reasons once again. Symantec researchers have recently discovered several browser extensions that somehow slipped past Google’s security ...