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The unique device identifier that Apple uses for personalized ad tracking, the IDFA, has been in the news lately. You may soon be hearing just as much about Google’s equivalent for Android, the Android Advertising Identifier (AAID). Unlike Apple, Google is not voluntarily throttling the third-party tracking of Android users that the AAID facilitates. But it is facing a new privacy complaint in the EU brought by noyb, the group that disrupted EU-US data transfers… Source link

TipRanks The Dip in These 3 Stocks Is a ‘Buying Opportunity,’ Say Analysts The investing game is rarely plain sailing. While no doubt investors would like the choices that make up their portfolio to always go up, the reality is more complicated. There are periods when even shares of the world’s most successful companies have been on a downward trajectory for one reason or another. While it’s no fun watching a stock you own drift to the bottom, any savvy investor knows that if the… Source link

Many websites use cookies to track your behavior. That’s not always bad; cookies are used to make essential features work, such as keeping you logged in to an account or remembering the items you’ve added to a shopping cart. But many sites use cookies operated by other companies, or third parties, for purposes such as targeted advertising.  Browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari already include settings to let you block third-party cookies. You may get further protections from such… Source link

The desktop Google Photos website seems to be getting the ability to scan for text in an image and turn it into copy-and-pasteable text, thanks to Google’s Lens technology (via 9to5Google). Lens has been available in many places on Android for a while, but its optical character recognition (OCR) feature coming to the desktop could make Google Photos an easy and free way to get real-life text onto your computer. According to 9to5Google, the feature seems to be rolling out widely, but a… Source link

After it looked like Apple might no-show, the company has committed to sending a representative to a Senate antitrust hearing on app store competition later this month. Last week, Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Mike Lee (R-UT) put public pressure on the company to attend the hearing, which will be held by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights. Klobuchar chairs that subcommittee and has turned her focus toward antitrust worries about… Source link

TipRanks The Dip in These 3 Stocks Is a ‘Buying Opportunity,’ Say Analysts The investing game is rarely plain sailing. While no doubt investors would like the choices that make up their portfolio to always go up, the reality is more complicated. There are periods when even shares of the world’s most successful companies have been on a downward trajectory for one reason or another. While it’s no fun watching a stock you own drift to the bottom, any savvy investor knows that if the… Source link

In a recent anti-trust case, it has been alleged that Google has been giving their own ads an unfair advantage within the Google Display Network in a program called “Project Bernanke”. What is Project Bernanke and How Do We Know About It? In their recent filing as part of an ongoing anti-trust lawsuit, Google, presumably accidentally, uploaded documents to the court’s public docket that weren’t redacted. The Wall Street Journal saw the documents before a judge allowed them to refile… Source link

Updated Apr 12, 2021, 12:07pm EDT Topline Google Drive is now running smoothly again after the service experienced a widespread disruption Monday that included Google Docs and Sheets, Google said Monday, after an issue that kept users from opening new documents though they could still access the platform. Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS Key Facts The issue with Google Drive “has been resolved,”… Source link

Google RIP to the Google Shopping app. XDA spotted a hidden closing message in the app on Thursday, and late Friday, Google confirmed to 9to5Google that the Shopping app is on the way out. Here’s the company’s statement: Within the next few weeks, we’ll no longer be supporting the Shopping app. All of the functionality the app offered users is available on the Shopping tab. We’ll continue building features within the Shopping tab and other… Source link

Google Drive and cloud-based apps such as Google Docs experienced a partial outage for about three hours on Monday, leading to high latency and other issues for some users, the company reported. The Google Drive cloud storage service—and associated cloud apps including Google Docs and Google Sheets—suffered multiple service issues during the partial outage Monday morning, Eastern Time, Google said. [Related: More Google Woes: Gmail Issues Strike ‘Significant Subset’ Of… Source link