“The majority of these complaints are attributed to confusing or deceptive uses of inline installation on websites.” “We continue to receive large volumes of complaints from users about unwanted extensions causing their Chrome experience to change unexpectedly,” explains James Wagner, Google’s extensions platform product manager. Even if users click on a link elsewhere on the internet, they’ll still be redirected to the Chrome Web Store - no more instant install from developers’ or random websites. The company will then disable the ability for existing extensions starting on September 12th. Google announced that users will no longer be able to sideload new extensions starting today and will totally block inline Chrome extension installation on all platforms starting this summer. This is partly done to have everything under one roof, but it is also for security.

This will prevent people from offering extensions on their own site and getting users to sideload them. You will no longer be able to install Google Chrome extensions from outside of the main Chrome Store anymore.

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