This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. If you want to get a sense of how you’re being tracked across the web, take a little time to read (and disable) the cookie options that appear each time you ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

AI-powered add-ons may collect a lot of information about you.

ABI and scripting to the Wasm Component Model (WASI Preview 2). He shares how to build secure plugin systems that run at near ...

Google today announced the latest set of policy changes to limit extensions abuse and improve security of the Chrome Web Store. This includes requiring 2FA for Chrome ...

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.

Several fake browser extensions masqueraded as legitimate cryptocurrency utilities in a snowballing campaign. Large campaigns that are spreading malicious browser extensions are abusing Google Ads and ...

Apple just announced at WWDC 2021 that it is bringing Safari web browser extensions to its mobile devices. With iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, iPhone and iPad will have access to the same web extensions ...

In macOS Big Sur, Safari will support more types of web extensions and Apple is also going to make it easier to port existing extensions from other browsers. Safari already supports extensions, but ...