Google Chrome is the most widely used browser around, and that's largely thanks to its customizability. By adding the best Chrome extensions, you can surf the web your way, and anonymously by throwing ...

Though there's no telling if a Chrome extension is really entirely safe, anyone could fall for an extension with a verified badge on the Chrome Web Store, promising reviews and over a hundred thousand ...

FreeVPN.One silently takes screenshots of users’ activity and transmits them to a remote server, raising enterprise data loss concerns. Chrome extension, FreeVPN.One, has been found secretly capturing ...

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Yesterday, Anthropic unveiled Claude for Chrome, a brand-new browser extension that acts as an AI agent. In short, the extension allows you to chat with Claude in a side panel while using Chrome, and ...

WTF?! Using free software and services, especially when no open source project is involved, usually requires a significant degree of trust from the end user. FreeVPN.One earned that trust over the ...

As AI assistants become capable of controlling web browsers, a new security challenge has emerged: users must now trust that every website they visit won't try to hijack their AI agent with hidden ...

A popular Chrome VPN extension has been found to spy on its over 100,000 users. Koi Security published an extensive report, warning users that instead of protecting their data as the best VPN apps ...

Chrome, Firefox and Edge are saving images in the WebP format, and that is not ideal for many users. They would prefer if this were done in other formats such as JPG or PNG, so what to do? Well, we ...

The luxury Chromebook renaissance has truly begun. First Lenovo impressed with what’s arguably the nicest Chrome OS laptop since Google’s own Pixelbook, and now Acer is doing the same thing for ...

FreeVPN.One's developer insists that the extension is compliant with Google's best practices, seemingly shifting blame to the tool's advanced AI Threat Detection feature.