- A network of 24 media extensions that are installed on 800,000 users and collected viewing data and demographic information on major streaming platforms such as Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, HBO, Apple TV, and others
- 12 separate ad blockers with a combined install base of over 5.5 million users openly selling user data
- Nearly 50 other extensions, with over 100,000 users in aggregate, that collected and resold users’ browsing data
If you’re still using Chrome in 2026, you get what you get.
I’m sure the extensions on other browsers are doing the same thing, to be fair.
The chrome web store is also used across other chromium browsers like Vivaldi, right?
Chromium forks are just as bad. Reap what you sow.
And then there is my company IT department wanting to forcibly uninstall anything that isn’t chrome because “chrome is the only secure option”. They literally made our company tools that are browser based just not work with anything that isn’t chrome to curb people trying to use other browsers. :(
Tbf, the problem was extensions here. Which if they have those blocked as well this wouldn’t be a problem.
Lol, they don’t. We have some of the worst IT people… Most of our computers are still on Windows 10 and just haven’t been getting updates because they didn’t setup extended update support properly.