Stale News Warning

This extension will warn you if you are reading an old news article
What is Stale News Warning?
"Stale News Warning" is a Chrome extension that helps prevent the consumption of old news articles by checking the date on news articles and providing warnings if they are outdated. It supports various news sources such as BBC News, CNN, Daily Mail, and more.

Extension stats

Users: 44 ▲ 8
Rating: 5.00 (4)
Version: 0.11 (Last updated: 2016-01-25)
Creation date: 2016-01-25
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 49.80K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

This extension checks the date on news articles and warns you if you are reading an old article - helping to highlight (and hopefully prevent) old news masquerading as current news on social media.

Currently supported: BBC News, CNN, Daily Mail, The Guardian, Huffington Post, The Independent, India Times / Times of India, New York Times, Sky News, Stack Overflow, The Telegraph, Yahoo News, Yahoo News UK

User reviews

Works like a charm, has saved me treating VERY old news as up to date. Very useful.
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Stale News Warning requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Stale News Warning has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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