Tag Archives: Chrome

Google Chrome has too much scale and power. With over 2 billion users, the Chrome browser dwarfs even its closest rivals, despite being owned by one of the most-data hungry companies in the world. There has long been a movement to ditch Google Chrome, but many people end up going back to the browser, simply because it functions well and many apps are optimised for it. But recent moves by Google—such as the delayed but widely believed to be privacy-infringing FLoC update—are… Source link

Google Chrome has well over two billion users worldwide and it not only dominates the web browser market, its Chromium core runs numerous browser alternatives. All of which makes Chrome the number one target for hackers and now Google has issued its fifth urgent upgrade warning in two months.  Google has warned users about five new ‘High’ security risks in Chrome LightRocket via Getty Images MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Reveals 7 ‘High’ Level Security Flaws In… Source link

Following version 92’s release on Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux, the next release of Google’s browser is rolling out. Chrome 93 is here today as a smaller update. Today, the Recently Closed menu (Overflow > History) only lets users restore Tab Groups in their entirety. Chrome 93 allows you to see what sites were in the collection, and just open individual pages: chrome://flags/#tab-restore-sub-menus With HTTPS adoption now pervasive, an experiment in Chrome 93 will replace… Source link

A shocking new tracking admission from Google, one that hasn’t yet made headlines, should be a serious warning to Chrome’s 2.6 billion users. If you’re one of them, this nasty new surprise should be a genuine reason to quit. Behind the slick marketing and feature updates, the reality is that Chrome is in a mess when it comes to privacy and security. It has fallen behind rivals in protecting users from tracking and data harvesting, its plan to ditch nasty third-party cookies has… Source link

Google Chrome has over two billion users worldwide and dominates the web browser market. But this also makes it the prime target of hackers and now Google has issued its fourth urgent upgrade warning in two months.  Google has warned users about seven new ‘High’ security risks in Chrome LightRocket via Getty Images MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Issues New Chrome Update Warning Following Eighth ‘Zero Day’ Hack In 2021By Gordon Kelly In an official blog post, Google has revealed seven… Source link

Google has confirmed a whole new bunch of alarmingly serious security vulnerabilities in Chrome 92, just two weeks after the last batch of flaws was fixed. These new security threats mean that “an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system,” the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has stated. Indeed, CISA, a standalone federal agency under U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) oversight, is encouraging both users and administrators to “ Source link

Google Chrome continues to dominate the web browser market with more than two billion users worldwide. The flipside is it also dominates the attention of hackers causing Google to issue its third urgent upgrade warning in a month.  Google has urged Chrome around the world to upgrade after it discovered a serious ‘zero day’ … [+] vulnerability in its web browser LightRocket via Getty Images MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Confirms 7th Chrome ‘Zero Day’ Vulnerability, Upgrade NowBy Gordon… Source link

“Google seems to be hiding,” Chrome rival Brave warned this week, as the trillion-dollar tech giant quietly confirmed a shocking update for 2.6 billion users. “Google is buying time to regroup,” Brave said, “to consolidate its control over web tracking.” If you’re a Chrome user, this nasty new surprise is a genuine reason to quit. We already know that Chrome harvests much more of your data than other browsers. And now a critical update to stop you being secretly tracked… Source link

Google is delaying its long-promised move to block third-party cookies from its Chrome browser by another year, citing the need to “move at a responsible pace” and “avoid jeopardizing the business models of many web publishers which support freely available content.” Google’s business model likely factored into the decision, too: It relies on third-party cookies for some of its lucrative ad business and is a major player in the digital advertising ecosystem that will be upended… Source link

Google pushed back plans to phase out a widely used technology to track the web activity of users, in an effort to address growing concerns from regulators and digital advertising industry rivals. In a blog post on Thursday, Google said it intended to start gradually blocking trackers, or cookies, from its Chrome web browser in mid-2023 and eliminate them altogether later that year. Previously, Google had said it planned to begin stripping cookies from Chrome in January 2022. Google’s… Source link