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Chrome extensions warning
Why is there a warning message in the chrome web store to
Because google is incompetent and dirty, question is, what Microsoft is going to do about google's bad behavior, because it is misleading users that are not tech savvy.
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- Eric_Lawrence
Microsoft
The stated explanation behind the original warning was that Chrome didn't realize that MSEdge maintained the ability to revoke extensions later discovered to be malicious. They didn't realize this because MSEdge does not hit Google's SafeBrowsing service for revocation information, but instead queries Microsoft's servers, which cache revocation information retrieved directly from SafeBrowsing.Google's claim it's because Microsoft didn't use their (Google's) revocation system is a sure sign that Google is attempting to become a monopoly on the web. Definitely fodder for the EU (the US won't do much if anything) in their anti-trust investigation.
Open sourcing the chromium engine and then requiring competitors to use your revocation service is simply not a good idea. Now if Google had said "Hey, Microsoft, please use our revocation service for updates to extensions downloaded from our services" then they would have some grounds to stand on. Extensions downloaded from Microsoft's extension services wouldn't be impacted by those revocations.
- Good luck 🙂
Because google is incompetent and dirty, question is, what Microsoft is going to do about google's bad behavior, because it is misleading users that are not tech savvy.
