Hundreds of popular add‑ons used encrypted, URL‑sized payloads to send search queries, referrers, and timestamps to outside servers, in some cases tied to data brokers and unknown operators.

Chrome extensions are supposed to make your browser more useful, but they've quietly become one of the easiest ways for attackers to spy on what you do online. Security researchers recently uncovered ...

The long-standing toggle that controlled Chrome Web Store extensions is now gone from Edge’s stable release, with no announcement from Microsoft. Since its Chromium launch, Microsoft Edge has ...

Two Chrome extensions in the Web Store named 'Phantom Shuttle' are posing as plugins for a proxy service to hijack user traffic and steal sensitive data. Both extensions are still present in Chrome's ...

A bombshell was dropped on the AI industry when an August 2025 USENIX study found that AI browsers violate user privacy by collecting customer browsing data. Conducted by researchers at the University ...

Have you ever felt like your ideas, tasks, and notes are scattered across too many places, sticky notes, emails, random apps, or even scraps of paper? It’s a frustrating cycle, and it can leave you ...

What’s the first thing you do when you start a fresh Windows install? For myself and many others, it’s installing Chrome (usually using Ninite). I throw Brave and Firefox on there after, but Chrome ...

Anu is a Features author at Android Police. You'll find her writing in-depth pieces about automation tools, productivity apps, and explainers. Before joining AP, she used to write for prominent tech ...

Learn how to set up MCP in Figma the easy way—without writing a single line of code. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the entire process using the Claude Desktop Extension so you can get ...