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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

Google is announcing today that it is delaying its plans to phase out third-party cookies in the Chrome browser until 2023, a year or so later than originally planned. Other browsers like Safari and Firefox have already implemented some blocking against third-party tracking cookies, but Chrome is the most-used desktop browser, and so its shift will be more consequential for the ad industry. That’s why the term “cookiepocalypse” has taken hold. In the blog post announcing the delay,… Source link

Do you really know who’s watching? Angela Lang/CNET You don’t want to be leaking your private… Source link

Google Chrome retains an iron grip on web browser market share with well over two billion users. Unfortunately, all those users need to be on high alert because Google has just issued its second urgent upgrade warning in a week.  Google has confirmed a serious security problem in its Chrome web browser and urged users to upgrade LightRocket via Getty Images MORE FROM FORBESChrome ‘Zero Day’ Exploit Revealed, Google Pushes Urgent UpgradeBy Gordon Kelly In an official blog post,… Source link