Here's the official post from Google: https://blog.chromium.org/2018/04/protecting-users-from-extension-cryptojacking.html https://blog.chromium.org/2018/04/pro

Here's the official post from Google: https://blog.chromium.org/2018/04/protecting-users-from-extension-cryptojacking.html https://blog.chromium.org/2018/04/protecting-users-from-exte... Note that extensions that secretly mined cryptocurrency in the background were already banned from the Chrome store. The change here is that now Google's no longer going to try to discriminate between extensions that secretly mine cryptocurrency in the background from extensions that fully disclose that behavior. (Presumably because it's easier to automate enforcement of the rules this way.)