Today, we are retiring the *Tails Verification* browser extension that used to be advertised on our download page. We are replacing it with similar JavaScript code that now runs directly on the page.
From the logs on our website, it seems like only a minority of downloads are currently being verified. We believe that this simplified verification procedure will greatly increase the number of downloads being verified and improve the security of our users.
In the future, this simplification will allow us to further simplify the download page and installation instructions. We also want to research how to make the verification faster. If you know WebAssembly, see if you can help us [speed up the checksum computation](https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/16905).