Google Chrome extensions are part of the key success factors of the web browser, allowing them to customize and wish to obtain additional features not present natively like downloading YouTube videos or ad blocking. Features that are often not in the interest of Google why they are, therefore, derived from the work of third-party developers.
Until now, the Mountain View giant showed some tolerance vis-à-vis Google Chrome extensions from external sources. But you know, all good things come to an end. Thus, from January next year, these programs will not be installable within the browser.
The unofficial Google Chrome extensions now banned
To justify this decision, Google course invoked security reasons, claiming that nothing prevented these small programs be accompanied by viruses and other malware. Objectively speaking, we must admit that they are not wrong but it's probably not there lies their first but rather a desire to preserve the revenue generated by advertising motivation.
Moreover, even if the Google Chrome extensions can effectively contain virus, knowing that it is the user himself who installs them on the browser, it has all the time to check himself if s 'is not a malicious one simple search on the net eventually identify software.
On the other hand, following the abolition of Adblocker and other ad blockers the Play Store there a few months ago, it was to be expected that Google will eventually adopt this type of policy, actually quite close to that Apple since now only authorized extensions will be those approved by the U.S. firm.
A compromise is still excessive. Hopefully Google does not prohibit the installation of third-party applications on Android, this remains one of the big advantages of their mobile OS freedom.
Until now, the Mountain View giant showed some tolerance vis-à-vis Google Chrome extensions from external sources. But you know, all good things come to an end. Thus, from January next year, these programs will not be installable within the browser.
The unofficial Google Chrome extensions now banned
To justify this decision, Google course invoked security reasons, claiming that nothing prevented these small programs be accompanied by viruses and other malware. Objectively speaking, we must admit that they are not wrong but it's probably not there lies their first but rather a desire to preserve the revenue generated by advertising motivation.
Moreover, even if the Google Chrome extensions can effectively contain virus, knowing that it is the user himself who installs them on the browser, it has all the time to check himself if s 'is not a malicious one simple search on the net eventually identify software.
On the other hand, following the abolition of Adblocker and other ad blockers the Play Store there a few months ago, it was to be expected that Google will eventually adopt this type of policy, actually quite close to that Apple since now only authorized extensions will be those approved by the U.S. firm.
A compromise is still excessive. Hopefully Google does not prohibit the installation of third-party applications on Android, this remains one of the big advantages of their mobile OS freedom.
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