Chrome Adds Warning for Extensions That Take Over Your Proxy Settings

An anonymous reader writes: Google engineers have added two new features to the Chrome browser that will alert users of extensions that hijack proxy settings or the new tab page. Google has been testing these two techniques sparingly with a small subset of users for more than a year, but they have now landed in Google Canary.

The techniques are used by malicious Chrome extensions to hijack traffic and insert ads, or to redirect search traffic to affiliate search engine programs. The addition of these popup alerts are part of Google's plan to fight malicious Chrome extensions that have been starting to plague the Web Store [1, 2, 3, 4].