This will be so from july 2018 onwards. Microsoft signed code will be accepted,
(“Microsoft-signed code, accessibility software, and IME software will not be affected.”)
so Windows Defender will have a preferred advantage over third party injectors like a tool as say Adguard.
Seems Google will keep everything out that interferes or checks their core business.
Will this also affect the avast shields for instance?
Will be interesting to hear how AV vendors will react
when Google urges end-users to uninstall their AV solution of choice, because of crashing their client (browser)?
Please, Google don’t be evil, as we know with stealth bitcoin mining arriving through third party code,
Google should consider such policies.
Isn’t Google getting too big a technology data-slurping giant,
and is it not better for authorities to split the giant up,
to at least help innovation amongst other things.
Was that why they dropped that logo, see attached?
It is permissionless innovation, what we warned against.
In fact, the .dev global top-level domain is owned by Google. And even though it has only made one domain live so far – the contractually obliged nic.dev – the search engine giant has the ability to add whatever .dev domains it wants to the public internet at any time it wants.
Gone
Which means that since December 16, 2014 your custom-slider.dev or standard.dev could have vanished at any point, overridden by a Google-owned property, depending on your DNS settings, of course.
and Google and Amazon struck a deal
In fact, both Google and Amazon applied for .dev, and Google got hold of it when it cut a deal with Amazon where the online retailer was given control of .book and .talk in return for Google having .dev and .drive.