<story><title>Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/malware-vendors-buy-chrome-extensions-to-send-adware-filled-updates/?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yaakov34</author><text>Can we start a petition for Google to let us disable extensions on specific sites? After reading the last few stories about this, I am quite sure I don&amp;#x27;t want any extensions whatsoever running in the same tab as my Gmail account. I think there is some extension that does this for you (turns off other extensions per site), but then we get into a &amp;quot;who guards the guardians&amp;quot; situation.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention we need better and finer grained permissions for extensions in general, now that we use so many web apps with crucial data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikcub</author><text>I achieve this by having multiple users in Chrome. My main user is signed into my google account and has no extensions installed and all plugins disabled, I only access gmail and google services with it.&lt;p&gt;My second user account is logged into basic services like HN, reddit, amazon and has only adblock and disconnect installed.&lt;p&gt;A third user is not logged in anywhere and has adblock and a half-dozen other extensions installed including UA switcher. No plugins installed and cookies + cache cleared every day.&lt;p&gt;4th user has all the anonimity extensions installed and has privoxy + tor set as the proxy&lt;p&gt;I use Facebook in a completely different browser again, YouTube and video watching in yet another and development in chromium.&lt;p&gt;7 or 8 different cookie stores, and a throwaway temp email account associated with the 3rd and 4th user for signing up to services.&lt;p&gt;Start out by creating a separate user for browsing sites and eventually develop your own way to split up your web browsing profiles.&lt;p&gt;This can get a bit messy when you try and access from tablet or mobikle , but I&amp;#x27;d rather not have a single large profile and a huge exploit surface and sacrifice browsing history and remembering passwords.</text></comment>
<story><title>Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/malware-vendors-buy-chrome-extensions-to-send-adware-filled-updates/?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yaakov34</author><text>Can we start a petition for Google to let us disable extensions on specific sites? After reading the last few stories about this, I am quite sure I don&amp;#x27;t want any extensions whatsoever running in the same tab as my Gmail account. I think there is some extension that does this for you (turns off other extensions per site), but then we get into a &amp;quot;who guards the guardians&amp;quot; situation.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention we need better and finer grained permissions for extensions in general, now that we use so many web apps with crucial data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonymfus</author><text>Opera 12 has ability to disable access of specific extensions to https sites and&amp;#x2F;or private tabs (by default access to https sites is enabled and to private tabs is disabled). May be there is a hope that they implement it in Blink based Opera, but now they only have ability to disable access of specific extensions to private windows and have no private tabs at all.</text></comment>