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No. Google uninstalling things from your computer without your permission? Now that would be news.
by unreal37 12y ago
No. Google uninstalling things from your computer without your permission? Now that would be news.
- james-skemp 12y agoActually I think the answer is yes. Or at least they're disabled. I forget the name but I had one that allowed for a custom new tab page. It had opt-out ads, but I otherwise loved it. It kept getting disabled after each fresh start of Chrome. Debated forking it but haven't yet. It might matter that I do have my extensions sync between machines. Extension is eventually disabled on the others as well. EDIT: "This extension violates the Chrome Web Store policy." The extension is Modern New Tab Page. The store page is gone, so no clue what policies are violated, what I need to fear, etcetera. I can still enable it, but it will be disabled at some point. Does it have questionable practices? Yes. There's a settings option but it's different than the settings I see by going to chrome://extensions/ as the sole option on the latter is to disable ads. EDIT 2: To be clear, this extension was blocked late last year, and is not part of this recent batch. At that time there were questions about whether there was a list as well. There was, like this time, no notification to impacted users.
- unreal37 12y agoHmm, disabling with a notice is not a bad middle-ground actually. For the worst offenders.
- james-skemp 12y agoIt's a horrible middle-ground. Google definitely dropped the ball with alerting users of a possible breach. If there's strong evidence a plugin was capturing and using credentials I need to know to change credentials.