Is Google getting more Apple-like when it comes to protecting you from yourself?

One of the reasons many IT pros and power users liked Google’s software in the past was because it treated you like an adult. It apprised you when you might be doing something risky and then let you decide for yourself whether you wanted to take that risk. It seems that’s coming to an end, at least when it comes to installing Chrome browser extensions. Now instead of just telling you that an extension is trying to install from outside the Chrome web store, Google is going to start blocking external extension sources. Good thing or bad?

Read more here:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57611380-93/google-to-ban-external-sources-for-windows-chrome-extensions/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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