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This is a smart move. Crapware vendors have started installing Chrome extensions bundled with their crapware installers, hijacking browser home page and search
by judah 13y ago
This is a smart move. Crapware vendors have started installing Chrome extensions bundled with their crapware installers, hijacking browser home page and search page.
The end result of this is that many of my non-technical family members end up with a hijacked Chrome experience. I've seen this only in the last year, increasingly so in the last few months.
This move to outlaw extensions not in the Chrome Store will halt this behavior.
- Istof 13y agoThis is an old tactic that has been going on for more then 10 years with web browsers. Also, I doubt that you need an extension to change the homepage.
- graylights 13y agoThe problem with this is crapware vendors existed before extensions were available. They were dirty hack modifications to the programs. They would introduce all sorts of bugs and since they modified the actual software they were a pain to uninstall. If your cabin in the woods is getting broken into, you won't secure it by putting a lock on the front door. You'll just get robbed and have a broken window. The real problem is users accepting and running installers that install crapware. You effectively give it permission to do anything it wants.
- paulgb 13y agoThis is the best explanation of the move, but won't it just lead to crapware figuring out how to enable developer mode and continuing to install bad extensions?
- higherpurpose 13y agoWould you say the same about Microsoft not allowing apps outside of the Metro store, or Apple not allowing apps outside of the Mac store? I can only support such a move as long as there is still away to use them. If they completely ban external extensions, then I won't be supporting Chrome anymore, because I know it's only a matter of time before they ban Adblock then, or other apps they don't agree with.