What is a Remote Hosted Code?

Patrick from the Chrome Extensions team explains the concept of Remotely Hosted Code in Chrome Extensions. Learn why RHC is no longer allowed, how to detect it, and what to do if your extension needs to be updated.
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Speaker: Patrick Kettner

[@michaelkaraim6889]

I like this host. His pronunciation is so clear and easy to understand.

[@IanMiller1]

I appreciate the tone of this video. FWIW we've had some false positives around being flagged for remote hosted code. The team has learned about a lot of edge cases that are allowed but that automatic scans trigger as being out of compliance. If you do get flagged, the support team is pretty good about learning about your use case and guiding you to make something compliant or to describe the nuances of what is or isn't allowed. Agreed that this is a big change and a major pain for some devs, but it's for a good reason. There have been a lot of articles exposing bad browser extensions that can hijack all sorts of things and that's why this change is necessary. We need users to trust that extensions are safe if we're going to continue to have all the awesome tools that browser extensions provide.

[@AndreaDragotta]

Thank you very much. I do create chrome extensions and never had any issue with remotely hosted code (I don't use any) but it was still interesting to learn a little more about it 🙂

[@bashvlas]

Thank you for the video.

[@SpotAllen]

Well this was a fast turn-around.

[@kgreen]

Remember manifest v3 is here to make the web a "better" place /s

[@dangtrungkien4999]

For a certain ads company

[@user-cx6fc4kn7j]

Your point is to make ad blockers harder...

[@DavidAlsh]

Can you still use remove hosted code in a private extension?

[@SERGIUS_ORIGINAL]

I agree with you.

[@jakequi]

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