Hacker News with Generative AI: Google Chrome

Making Chrome QUICer (chromium.org)
Making Chrome QUICer
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?
Exploiting leaked timestamps from Google Chrome extensions (fingerprint.com)
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.
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.
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 ).
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 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's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin (pcmag.com)
Google Chrome's uBlock Origin phaseout has begun (theverge.com)
Google Chrome has begun to phase out uBlock Origin.
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.
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.
Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to up to $5k (plaintip.com)
Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to up to $5k (dailymail.co.uk)
Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockers (pcworld.com)
uBlock Origin could soon stop working in Chrome (theregister.com)
Google Chrome will let you send money to your favourite website (bleepingcomputer.com)
Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled (bleepingcomputer.com)
About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (github.com/uBlockOrigin)
Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome (digiday.com)
A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web (privacysandbox.com)
Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com (twitter.com)
Google Chrome Will Track You for the Next 200 Days–Then It May Get Worse (forbes.com)
Google Chromium, sans integration with Google (github.com/ungoogled-software)
PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium (github.com)
Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week (arstechnica.com)
Google will roll out Chrome's new extension spec next week (theverge.com)
How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search (tedium.co)
Built-In AI – AI on Chrome (chrome.com)