Google to Remove Chrome Extensions that Mine Cryptocurrencies

[Domithra]

Google stated on their Chromium blog that they will no longer allow any new extensions that mine cryptocurrency and will remove all those already on the platform by June.

Google previously has allowed “cryptocurrency mining in extensions as long as it is the extension’s single purpose, and the user is adequately informed about the mining behavior.” Google has decided to nix the privilege for everyone since they said that “90% of all extensions with mining scripts” that were uploaded to the Chrome Web Stored failed to follow these policies. Such as SafeBrowse that claimed to be a “protect browsing” extension, but actually maliciously mined Monero without informing its 140,000 users.

Google said that they will still allow extensions with blockchain related programs other than mining. Google’s actions follow that of itself banning cryptocurrency related ads, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat, and MailChimp.

[Claus]

They've really planned on these things for a long time. Google in its own way even doesn't want Crypto adverts I guess.  But still nothing is going to work. We hiring our target this year with nothing stopping us. Trust me

[Souri]

Yeah that makes a lot of sense. All those plugins are basically malware so I am happy the big companies are cracking down on those.