Hacker News with Generative AI: Google Chrome

Chrome browser bringing an IP address privacy tool to Incognito (github.com/GoogleChrome)
IP Protection is a feature that limits availability of a user’s original IP address in third party contexts in Incognito mode, enhancing Incognito's protections against cross-site tracking when users choose to browse in this mode.

Privacy, Web Browsing, Google Chrome, Security

54 points by privacyWatcher 7 days ago | 53 comments

Google's 7-year slog to improve Chrome extensions hasn't satisfied developers (theregister.com)
Google's overhaul of Chrome's extension architecture continues to pose problems for developers of ad blockers, content filters, and privacy tools.

Google Chrome, Web Development, Software Development, Privacy, Ad Blocking

51 points by lapcat 13 days ago | 44 comments

Malicious extensions circumvent Google's remote code ban (palant.info)
As noted last week I consider it highly problematic that Google for a long time allowed extensions to run code they downloaded from some web server, an approach that Mozilla prohibited long before Google even introduced extensions to their browser. For years this has been an easy way for malicious extensions to hide their functionality. When Google finally changed their mind, it wasn’t in form of a policy but rather a technical change introduced with Manifest V3.

Security, Web Browsers, Google Chrome, Extensions, Malicious Software

30 points by campuscodi 31 days ago | 6 comments

Making Chrome QUICer (chromium.org)
Making Chrome QUICer

Web Development, Networking, Google Chrome

5 points by HieronymusBosch 65 days ago | 0 comments

Is Chrome the New IE? (2023) (magiclasso.co)
With a global browser market share of over 65%, Google’s Chrome has become the target of criticism and disdain, much like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer once was. Is Chrome facing similar challenges to Internet Explorer (IE) and will this lead to its downfall?

Web Browsers, Market Share, Technology, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome

284 points by bentocorp 95 days ago | 302 comments

Exploiting leaked timestamps from Google Chrome extensions (fingerprint.com)

Cybersecurity, Privacy, Browser Security, Google Chrome

15 points by bubblehack3r 112 days ago | 1 comments

New tool bypasses Google Chrome's new cookie encryption system (bleepingcomputer.com)
A researcher has released a tool to bypass Google's new App-Bound encryption cookie-theft defenses and extract saved credentials from the Chrome web browser.

Cybersecurity, Google Chrome, Security, Web Browsers

6 points by josephcsible 114 days ago | 1 comments

Google Chrome will soon block password autofills if Android phone gets stolen (androidauthority.com)
Google Chrome for Android is preparing to add support for Identity Check, an upcoming feature that will force apps to use biometric authentication when your phone is outside of a trusted location.

Security, Mobile Security, Google Chrome, Android, Biometric Authentication

3 points by thunderbong 121 days ago | 0 comments

PSA Google Chrome pushed a breaking change in custom protocol handlers this week (ycombinator.com)
Trying to save lots of time we wasted debugging this issue: If you have built an app around a custom protocol (i.e. oursoftware://do_cool_thing?callback=http://coolthingdone.com ), the roll-out of Chrome M130 breaks those URLS ( https://issues.chromium.org/issues/374691247 ).

Software, Web Development, Google Chrome, Debugging, Security

11 points by nikanj 121 days ago | 4 comments

Google Is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser Is Safe (quippd.com)
We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.2

Google Chrome, Ad Blocking, Web Browsers

24 points by yoasif_ 122 days ago | 9 comments

Google Is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser Is Safe (quippd.com)
We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.2

Google Chrome, Browser Extensions, Privacy, Advertising

21 points by jerheinze 126 days ago | 10 comments

Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin (pcmag.com)

Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Privacy, Ad Blocking, Security

178 points by elsewhen 128 days ago | 95 comments

Google Chrome's uBlock Origin phaseout has begun (theverge.com)
Google Chrome has begun to phase out uBlock Origin.

Web Browsers, Privacy, Security, Google Chrome

95 points by mrkramer 128 days ago | 35 comments

Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon (bleepingcomputer.com)
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.

Web Browsers, Ad Blockers, Security, Google Chrome

41 points by el_duderino 130 days ago | 15 comments

Google will disable some of its own Chrome extensions soon (ghacks.net)
If you run extensions in Google Chrome, you may one day find yourself without access to some of them. This is true for third-party extensions, but also some extensions that Google created for Chrome.

Chrome Extensions, Google Chrome, Privacy, Security

31 points by speckx 168 days ago | 2 comments

Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to up to $5k (plaintip.com)

Google Chrome, Privacy, Legal

115 points by RadixDLT 175 days ago | 114 comments

Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to up to $5k (dailymail.co.uk)

Privacy, Google Chrome, Legal, Lawsuits, Compensation

23 points by LinuxBender 175 days ago | 2 comments

Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockers (pcworld.com)

Google Chrome, Advertising, Web Browsing, Privacy

101 points by axiomdata316 193 days ago | 100 comments

uBlock Origin could soon stop working in Chrome (theregister.com)