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Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw... by hackinthebochs on Monday March 05, 2018 @01:12AM (#16519115)
I adblock then disable extension updates. The only extension I add.
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Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw... by rasz on Monday March 05, 2018 @07:00AM (#16520436)
how do you disable extension updates in chrome?
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Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw... by hackinthebochs on Monday March 05, 2018 @11:26AM (#16522095)
Blocking updates on chrome is harder than I remember. A couple of ways here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27657617/how-to-disable-...

Another way is to enable developer mode on the extension page then install an unpacked version of the extensions you want.

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Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw... by rasz on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @03:07AM (#16534992)
manually installing unpacked extensions is the only way that currently works, update_url doesnt work for more than a year, Chrome just calls home on hardcoded IPs.
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