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Google tightens the reins on Chrome shopping plugins amid Honey link scandal
Google is cracking down on Chrome shopping add-ons.
Google’s new rules demand transparency, banning extensions from messing with shopping cookies or adding affiliate links without clear user consent. Following the revelations, Google is tightening the rules on shopping extensions in the Chrome Web Store, as officially announced on its developer support portal(via 9to5Google). The new policy requires extensions to inject affiliate links only when triggered by a direct user action; a rule that effectively shuts down Honey’s old tactics.
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