Manifest v3, the programming interface behind Google's security plans, will arrive with Chrome 88 in mid-January, Google said Wednesday at the Chrome Dev Summit. The move had angered some developers who expected earlier it would cripple ad blockers. These delivered the update that contained the said malware – under the guise of a classic adblocker.With the next version of Chrome, Google is moving ahead with a plan to improve privacy and security by reining in some abilities of extensions used to customize the browser.

Instead, the two Chrome extensions were sold to new owners. But don’t worry! The malicious code was not present in the original versions from that time. Thus Nano Adblocker and Nano Defender were on the market for more than a year. At the same time, deactivation takes place on the users’ devices. In the case of the Chrome variant, the IP addresses of the users, various http methods or responses, the time the person concerned spent on the respective homepage and further information about visited URLs are said to have been at risk.Īnd it was precisely this potential danger in connection with the “smuggled in” codes that ensured that the blockers were now deleted comparatively quickly and thus belong to the past. According to a report on, the corresponding Firefox blockers (with the same name) are not affected. Nano Adblocker and Nano Defender were probably equipped with a malicious code and thus were able to collect user data. In the case of the two add-ons mentioned, a user number in the higher six-digit (!) range was affected. All the better if those responsible manage to react quickly and thus avert much of the potential damage.

In the past, there have already been a number of scenarios that made it necessary to take appropriate action. One thing is certain: it is not uncommon for add-ons to have to be removed from the stores. More specifically, these are the add-ons Nano Adblocker and Nano Defender.īut what actually led to the deletion? And were user data possibly in danger? Google has now decided to delete two adblockers from the Chrome Web Store.

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