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Google Chrome 25 Will Disable Silent Extension Installation

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 23, 2012 @01:44PM from the now-you-must-shout dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google on Friday announced that it is changing its stance for silently installing extensions in its browser. As of Chrome 25, external extension deployment options on Windows will be disabled by default and all extensions previously installed using them will be automatically disabled."

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Re:Yeah! by Albanach · 2012-12-23 16:08 · Score: 5, Interesting

SOME users experience fatigue and click themselves into deep shit, others pay attention and click themselves out of it.
How many extensions do you think the average user wants/needs? I really don't see fatigue being much of an issue with browser extensions. A user should only be seeing a couple of warnings a year.
If the click through presents a warning and defaults to No, then users are much more likely to opt-out, clicking themselves to safety. Even better if there's a 'don't let this site bother me again' option.