Tag: Chrome
Google apologises for glitch that broke Password Manager on Chrome
Last week, Google rolled out an update to the Chrome browser. But, it inadvertently crashed the Password Manager of the browser and this affected millions of users worldwide. For close to 18 hours, they couldn’t access their password credentials to log in to online accounts. Around two per cent of users out of the 25 …
Google Chrome could soon be less annoying when downloading APKs
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Chrome for Android may soon reduce how often it shows the “file may be harmful” warning. The warning won’t be shown anymore if the user has Google Play Protect enabled. However, the warning will still appear if Play Protect is disabled, plus Chrome will show a new warning …
Google Confirms Bad News For 3 Billion Chrome Users—You Will Still Be Tracked – Forbes
Google Confirms Bad News For 3 Billion Chrome Users—You Will Still Be Tracked Forbes Google Is Keeping Cookies in Chrome After All The Wall Street Journal Google cancels plans to kill off cookies for advertisers CNBC Source link Google Confirms Bad News For 3 Billion Chrome Users—You Will Still Be Tracked – Forbes #Google #Confirms #Bad #News #Billion …
EFF Angry as Google Keeps 3rd-Party Cookies in Chrome
Google changes its mind about third-party tracking cookies—we’re stuck with them for the foreseeable. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is absolutely livid at la GOOG’s volte-face. Switching off third-party cookies was finally going to happen this year—following delay after delay. But, given the “feedback” from regulators and AdTech firms, that’s not now happening.Instead, Google will do …
Google abandons plans to drop third-party cookies in Chrome – Computerworld
As a major update to Chrome’s new cross-site tracking protection policy, Google announced that it is no longer considering dropping support for third-party cookies. Third-party cookies, which refer to the cookies that are set by a website other than the one a user is currently visiting through embedded content like advertisements, social media widgets, or …
Google’s plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome crumbles • The Register
Google no longer intends to drop support for third-party cookies, the online identifiers used by the ad industry to track people and target them with ads based on their online activities. In a Monday post, Anthony Chavez, VP of Google’s Privacy Sandbox, said that the search and ads giant has come to understand that its …
Apple Warns Millions Of iPhone Users—Stop Using Google Chrome
New Chrome warning issued for 1.4 billion million Apple iPhone users NurPhoto via Getty Images Updated 18/7 with pickup on Apple’s criticism of Chrome in new Webkit release. We all know relationships can be complicated, but few are quite as complicated as the one between Apple and Google. Cue Apple’s creepy new attack ad on …
Google Chrome will soon throw security warnings at you that you cannot ignore
Google is changing how Chrome reports potentially malicious file downloads to the user. While the blocking algorithm is not changing, Chrome will display full screen security warnings to the user. Google Chrome blocks file downloads that its Safe Browsing feature considers malicious. Whether these are indeed malicious or not is not always clear, as Safe …
Apple Warns Millions Of iPhone Users—Stop Using Google Chrome
New Chrome warning issued for 1.4 billion million Apple iPhone users NurPhoto via Getty Images We all know relationships can be complicated, but few are quite as complicated as the one between Apple and Google. Cue Apple’s creepy new attack ad on Google—with a clear message for its 1.4 billion users—stop using Chrome on your …
How Chrome Secretly Shares Your Device Data With Google
Chrome’s system data sharing is hidden in plain sight Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto Somewhat surprisingly given DOJ investigations and Europe’s DMA, it now seems that Google may be using its dominant Chrome browser to advantage its own services over its competition. Chrome pulls device and performance data, and then shares it exclusively with Google. Following reports on …