Late last year, there was a big scandal involving the Honey browser extension, which wasn’t helping users find the best deals and coupons as it so claimed to do. Instead, it was swapping out affiliate ...

Late last year, a YouTube video uncovering the shady affiliate tactics of PayPal's coupon Chrome extension, Honey, went viral. The 23-minute video by YouTube creator MegaLag received more than 17 ...

Google does not want a repeat of the Honey Chrome extension scandal. To prevent that from happening again, the company is tightening its Chrome extension affiliate ad policies and making some changes.

Google has removed from the Chrome Web Store 32 malicious extensions that could alter search results and push spam or unwanted ads. Collectively, they come with a download count of 75 million. The ...

Google has updated its affiliate ads policy for Chrome extensions after creators accused PayPal’s popular Honey browser ...

The Chrome Web Store is a great place to find extensions, but it’s also an element of the world’s most popular browser that’s easy to forget about. Now, though, Google has launched a completely ...

Chrome's new adblock-limiting extension plan is still on. The company paused the rollout of the new "Manifest V3" extension format a year ago after an outcry over how much it would damage some of ...

Almost a dozen malicious extensions with 1.7 million downloads in Google's Chrome Web Store could track users, steal browser activity, and redirect to potentially unsafe web addresses. Most of the add ...