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Google Starts Blocking Extensions Not In the Chrome Web Store
An anonymous reader writes "Google has begun blocking local Chrome extensions to protect Windows users. This means that as of today, extensions can be installed in Chrome for Windows only if they're hosted on the Chrome Web Store. Furthermore, Google says extensions that were previously installed 'may be automatically disabled and cannot be re-enabled or re-installed until they're hosted in the Chrome Web Store.' The company didn't specify what exactly qualifies the "may" clause, though we expect it may make exceptions for certain popular extensions for a limited time. Google is asking developers to reach out to it if they run into problems or if they 'think an extension was disabled incorrectly.'"
its funny that intelligent people would even THINK to try a google product that is a binary, running on their pc.
really - how dumb do you have to be to trust the 'do nothing but evil' company? I could understand the AOL crowd not knowing any better, but techies? wow. just wow. techies trusting a google binary that runs on their own hardware. amazing.
firefox has jumped the shark, but its still not the level of control the google wants over you.
if you willingly take google into your home, you get what you deserve. maybe after enough bruises and trouble, enough people will shun google.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Go shill for your bosses somewhere else. How can you point to this being windows only as a good thing? Clearly because of the "superior architecture" of the web browser turned OS.
If the MS employees got on here and talked shit like you we'd burn them to the ground. You are fucking worse than any of them.
To hell with google.