Google just announced that starting from today it is no longer accepting new Chrome extensions with cryptominer scripts in its Chrome Web Store and will also remove the existing ones from late June. This seems to be the next step in their agenda to clean up their services from risky practices as we have already reported earlier that Google is planning to ban all crypto related advertisements from June as a result of the ICO boom.

Crypto miner apps were going rampart in the store and the problem, according to the statement, was that 90% of all extensions failed either failed to comply to the policies or got removed later. For those who didn’t know previously, these apps were either offering a service and asking for the user’s processing power in return or were standards apps that had hidden scripts in them.

Sadly Google again goes with a full ban instead of a stricter monitoring, this means that even extensions like Monero VPN will have to shut down, which offered a VPN service with no logs or user registration and only mined cryptocurrencies during the usage. On the bright side, this doesn’t affect other crypto related applications like wallet extensions or price tickers.