Chrome will soon start removing extensions that may be unsafe

Retroactive removals are finally on the way for malicious Chrome browser extensions. Beginning with Chrome 117, Chrome will “proactively highlight to users when an extension they have installed is no longer in the Chrome web store”.

Previously, if you installed an extension which was subsequently unpublished by the developer or removed by Google, the extension you installed would remain in place, even if it was malicious. If, for example, the extension was some sort of data stealer, it would …

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