Don't add custom search engines

Lee Hodsdon2018年1月8日

★★★★★1

Alas, this extension stopped working. Not sure as of which version of Google Chrome when it became ineffective. I was doing some maintenance, checked the search engines list, and there were many entries for sites that I had previously visited and used their search that were now listed in Google Chrome's search engine list -- all the while using this extension. I edited the search engine list to remove the unwanted entries (those that covertly add themselves to Google Chrome), revisited the sites, did a search there, and this extension did absolutely NOTHING to block those sites from adding their search URLs to the search engines list in Google Chrome. Example sites that add to the custom search engines list are: aol.com, yahoo.com, bing.com, ask.com, fleetfarm.com, gasbuddy.com, menards.com, 800notes.com, amazon.zom, bestbuy.com, ebay, and newegg.com. It is easy to spot the covert search engine additions when looking at the search engine list: they don't have a keyword assigned. Uninstalling and reinstalling this extension does not get it working. It might even show a number overlay on its toolbar icon as though it blocked the custom search addition but, nope, it didn't block anything. It has not been updated in over a year and a half. It's become useless and the author has abandoned this extension so it will not get updated to start working again (assuming however this extension worked before is still a viable method in the latest versions of Google Chrome).

Chris Prall2018年1月7日

★★★★★1

Doesn't seem to work anymore

CHARLES HENRI2017年12月31日

★★★★★1

FAKE

Shahed Faisal2017年12月20日

★★★★★4

The new version has been working good so far.

Goog Man2017年12月19日

★★★★★2

While some custom searches are certainly being blocked, a list is still accumulating in Chrome's Settings. I posted a suggestion that the developer provide some kind of blacklist for sites we find are still being added to Settings. (Of course, I don't know if such an option is even possible.) If something like that happens or the developer finds another way to block the custom searches that are still getting through, I will joyfully amend my rating. Update: I now have over sixty useless and unwanted "search engines" in my Chrome settings, so, obviously, this extension does next to nothing. (I've lowered my rating from "okay" to "disliked".)

Flemming Sørvin2017年12月15日

★★★★★3

It blocks a number of sites but still a fair number of sites add their search engines.

Sumukha Ramachandra2017年12月13日

★★★★★1

Not at all helpful. Doesn't do anything.

Prince Lundgren2017年11月23日

★★★★★1

not working

Josef H.2017年11月9日

★★★★★1

Unfortunately, this extension doesn't work at all. I can't believe Google doesn't give users the option to disable this unwanted behavior!

Peichao Zhang2017年10月28日

★★★★★1

doesn't work as expected in Chrome 61.0.3163.100.