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WordPress to automatically disable Google FLoC on websites

WordPress announced today that they plan on treating Google’s new FLoC tracking technology as a security concern and plans to block it by default on WordPress sites. […]

17 Apr

Google is adding its Dinosaur Game as an iPhone widget

Google is bringing its Dinosaur Game to Apple iPhones as an iOS widget that you can add to your home screen. […]

17 Apr

Google Chrome’s new feature lets you easily share selected text

Google makes it easy to share text with friends and colleagues with a new Chrome 90 feature that lets you create links to selected text on a web page. […]

16 Apr

Amex cards removed from Google Pay due to expired certificate

An expired certificate has led to the repeated removal of linked American Express credit cards from user’s Google Pay accounts. […]

14 Apr

Vivaldi, Brave, DuckDuckGo reject Google’s FLoC ad tracking tech

Makers of Vivaldi and Brave web browsers have rejected Google’s new privacy-preserving proposal called FLoC, which is meant to replace third-party tracking cookies across websites on browsers, including Chrome. […]

08 Apr

Google Chrome blocks a new port to stop NAT Slipstreaming attacks

Google Chrome is now blocking HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP access to TCP port 10080 to prevent the ports from being abused in NAT Slipstreaming 2.0 attacks. […]

02 Apr

Popular Twitch AdBlock shuts down after Twitch breaks extension

The popular Twitch AdBlock extension has been removed from both Chrome Web Store and Firefox Addons. Twitch AdBlock was the choice of extension among Twitch users for restricting ads when using Twitch. The extension’s author stated before its removal, the ad blocker had over 150,000 users and 6 million daily views. […]

24 Mar

Google Chrome will use HTTPS as default navigation protocol

Google Chrome will switch to choosing HTTPS as the default protocol for all URLs typed in the address bar, starting with the web browser’s next stable version. […]

24 Mar

Google removes privacy-focused ClearURLs Chrome extension

Google has mysteriously removed the popular browser extension ClearURLs from the Chrome Web Store. ClearURLs is a privacy-preserving browser add-on which automatically removes tracking elements from URLs. This, according to its developer, can help protect your privacy when browsing the Internet. […]

20 Mar

Hands on with Google Chrome’s new Tab Search feature – Rolling out now

Google is rolling out a new ‘Tab Search’ feature that allows you to search through your list of open tabs among all open browser windows to find a specific page. […]

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