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Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday January 31 2017, @02:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the next-they-will-kill-kenny dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Google made a change in Chrome 57 that removes options from the browser to manage plugins such as Google Widevine, Adobe Flash, or the Chrome PDF Viewer.

If you load chrome://plugins in Chrome 56 or earlier, a list of installed plugins is displayed to you. The list includes information about each plugin, including a name and description, location on the local system, version, and options to disable it or set it to "always run".

You can use it to disable plugins that you don't require. While you can do the same for some plugins, Flash and PDF Viewer, using Chrome's Settings, the same is not possible for the DRM plugin Widevine, and any other plugin Google may add to Chrome in the future.

Starting with Chrome 57, that option is no longer available. This means essentially that Chrome users won't be able to disable -- some -- plugins anymore, or even list the plugins that are installed in the web browser.

Please note that this affects Google Chrome and Chromium.

Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2017/01/29/google-removes-plugin-controls-from-chrome/

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday January 31 2017, @04:35PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 31 2017, @04:35PM (#461281) Journal

    So then, Don't Be Evil, unless you can do so quickly enough that it is too late for anyone to do anything about it.

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Unixnut on Tuesday January 31 2017, @05:11PM

    by Unixnut (5779) on Tuesday January 31 2017, @05:11PM (#461305)

    so.. like high frequency trading? :-P

    • (Score: 2) by rts008 on Tuesday January 31 2017, @09:01PM

      by rts008 (3001) on Tuesday January 31 2017, @09:01PM (#461428)

      Well, as fast as high speed trading, but closer to a high speed fucking.

      Imagine a dry, gritty jackhammer approaching your rectum...

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by WillR on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:09PM

    by WillR (2012) on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:09PM (#461371)
    To shamelessly plagiarize a superior wit on some other forum... the decline of Google:
    2004: Don't Be Evil.
    2010: Evil is subjective and hard to define.
    2013: We make military robots now.

    • (Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Wednesday February 08 2017, @04:36PM

      by Hyperturtle (2824) on Wednesday February 08 2017, @04:36PM (#464597)

      I guess that is more like the ascension of Alphabet.

      Google made the promise; we can argue if they broke or bent it.

      Alphabet did not make that same promise, and their subsidiares not already held to such things are not beholden to such restrictions.