Security News > 2020 > April > Google Steps Up Fight on Spam in Chrome Web Store

Google this week announced a new set of rules for its Chrome Web Store, meant to ensure that developers don't spam users with extensions that have similar functionality.

The Chrome Web Store has been available since 2011, offering a total of more than 200.000 browser extensions that allow users to easily customize their browsing experience in Chrome.

"We want to ensure that the path of a user discovering an extension from the Chrome Web Store is clear and informative and not muddled with copycats, misleading functionalities or fake reviews and ratings," Google says.

To make sure it can eliminate low-quality extensions and duplicates from the store, the Internet giant has updated its spam policy, so as to prevent developers and affiliates from publishing multiple extensions offering the same experiences or functionality.

What's more, Google now requires that extensions do not have "Misleading, improperly formatted, non-descriptive, irrelevant, excessive, or inappropriate metadata." Such information includes the extension description and developer name, along with title, icon, and screenshots.

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