Starting in Chrome 117, Chrome will proactively highlight to users when an extension they have installed is no longer in the Chrome Web Store. This is limited to three specific cases:
- The extension has been unpublished by the developer.
- The extension has been taken down for violating Chrome Web Store policy.
- The item was marked as malware.
We have designed this change to keep the ecosystem safe for users while limiting the chances that this will impact genuine extensions. If an issue is resolved, the notification is automatically cleared. The notification will not be displayed for an extension when the developer has been notified of a possible violation and has been given time to address the issue or appeal.
Won’t belong now until “violating Chrome Web Store policy” will be applied to ad blockers.
Glad to be using Firefox!
I gave up on chrome not long after it was released. On the rare occasion work or life requires me to download and install it again, I try the same things that made me hate it, find the same failures, and yawn.
Chrome has a lock on extension use that would make any company jealous. IOS has nothing compare to chrome’s heave handed blocking.
Then again, Firefox isn’t much better blocking extensions you already installed with no way to unblock
unless your a developer and have the nightly version of Firefox, can get a hold of the extension developer… etc etc self sign maybe working.
lostinlodos,
Yeah. I really wish we could point to firefox as a non-hypocritical champion of owner freedoms and control, yet we can’t. I hate that mozilla’s leadership copied the “we’re locking you up for your own safety” line that apple and google use. Mozilla, by failing to stand out here, are kind of throwing away one of the few advantages they can really offer: freedom from the machine. They’re essentially saying “it doesn’t matter if you use us, we’re going to take away your control just like the big guys do”. I still find FF important to fight off browser monopolies, but ugh what a wasted opportunity to show that mozilla are different and willing to take the high ground.