Google is finally banning Chrome extensions that let you jailbreak chatbots

Google is tightening Chrome extension rules with stricter privacy requirements, AI safeguards, and new bans on prediction market tools.

A fake Perplexity AI Chrome extension was secretly tracking browser searches — here’s how

Microsoft exposed a Google Chrome extension that looks like a legit version of Perplexity AI—turns out, it’s just malicious ...
Forbes

Gemini In Chrome Update—Google’s New Phone Tracking Revealed

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy. Republished on September 28 with new Gemini privacy warning as ...
CNET

Chrome Has Been Secretly Downloading AI to Your Computer. Here's What You Can Do

Chrome has been automatically downloading Gemini Nano (a 4GB AI model) to users' computers without notification or an easy way to prevent it. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping ...
CSOonline

Featured Chrome extension FreeVPN.One caught capturing and transmitting user data

FreeVPN.One silently takes screenshots of users’ activity and transmits them to a remote server, raising enterprise data loss concerns. Chrome extension, FreeVPN.One, has been found secretly capturing ...

Clear cookies and site data when you quit Chrome missing

Clear cookies and site data when you quit Chrome missing? It has been replaced by "Don't allow sites to save data on your device." ...
Ars Technica

Judge: Google can keep Chrome, must share search data with “qualified competitors”

Google has avoided the worst-case scenario in the pivotal search antitrust case brought by the US Department of Justice. More than a year ago, the Department of Justice (DOJ) secured a major victory ...

Malicious browser extensions hit 4.3M users

Malicious Chrome and Edge extensions collected browsing history, keystrokes and personal data from millions of users before ...