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prevent the consumption of old news articles by checking the date on news articles and providing warnings if they are outdated.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
By: Denny de la Haye
Rating: 5.00
(4)
Creation date: 2016-01-25
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 49.80K
Ranking
# 87282
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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.
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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