Google is trying to make Chrome extensions safer

As Uncle Ben said, "With great power comes great responsibility." Browser extensions can be incredibly powerful tools, but many of them demand full access to all web pages. Stories about popular extensions stealing user data or running cryptocurrency miners have become all too common. Google today announced a series of upcoming changes to Chrome extensions, some which aim to make them more trustworthy.

While some Chrome extensions have a limited scope (for example, our Toolbox add-on only requires permissions for the Play Store website and APKMirror), others ask for permission to read and modify all pages.

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