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“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

This includes where the same users “have reviewed the same range of products or businesses at similar times to each other and there is no connection between those products or businesses or where the review suggests that the reviewer has received a payment or other incentive to write a positive review”. Source link

Jeff Bezos is set to launch aboard the New Shepard rocket on July 20. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images; Blue Origin Petitions to stop Jeff Bezos’ Earth re-entry collected more than 41,000 signatures between them. The one with the most signatures is entitled: “Do not allow Jeff Bezos to return to Earth.” Bezos will fly into space on July 20 for Blue Origin’s first human flight of New Shepard rocket. See more stories on Insider’s business page. More than 41,000 people have signed petitions calling… Source link

Jeff Bezos is set to launch aboard the New Shepard rocket on July 20. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images; Blue Origin Petitions to stop Jeff Bezos’ Earth re-entry collected more than 41,000 signatures between them. The one with the most signatures is entitled: “Do not allow Jeff Bezos to return to Earth.” Bezos will fly into space on July 20 for Blue Origin’s first human flight of New Shepard rocket. See more stories on Insider’s business page. More than 41,000 people have signed petitions calling… Source link

Google dominates the browser market with Chrome—most of you will be users. But Chrome is now crossing into new, uncharted territory, with new tracking technology that has been described as “creepy” and a “significant risk” to users. And so, if you are one of those 2.65 billion users, it looks like now is the time to quit. Chrome has been under fire for its new tracking technology for some time, but now we have a more detailed technical analysis of the very serious risks to… Source link

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has announced it will take an active role in developing Google’s plans to prevent websites tracking Chrome users. Under the proposals, the CMA would accept legally binding commitments from Google not to use its proposed replacements for tracking cookies, a set of technologies the search engine calls its Privacy Sandbox, in a way that would harm competition. It is thought to be the first time a competition regulator has been involved at such an early… Source link

Google is changing how its Android search engine choice screen works in Europe, following complaints from rivals about its pay-to-play model, the company has announced in a blog post. The selection screen appears for users when they first set up an Android device, and is designed to offer a choice of search engines after Google was hit by a record $5 billion antitrust fine in 2018. From September, the search giant is making it free for search engines to be included, and is increasing the… Source link

Google is changing how its Android search engine choice screen works in Europe, following complaints from rivals about its pay-to-play model, the company has announced in a blog post. The selection screen appears for users when they first set up an Android device, and is designed to offer a choice of search engines after Google was hit by a record $5 billion antitrust fine in 2018. From September, the search giant is making it free for search engines to be included, and is increasing the… Source link

Google’s John Mueller advises site owners that deleting a sitemap won’t prevent URLs from being crawled in the future. This topic is discussed in the latest episode of the Ask Googlebot video series on YouTube. Mueller addresses a question asking if it’s possible to turn off or delete a sitemap from Google Search Console. Deleting a sitemap is possible, and it’s not hard to do either, but if the intention is to stop Googlebot from crawling the URLs then site owners will have to employ a… Source link

Republican leaders in Congress sought to distance themselves Tuesday from comments made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., that compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s mask mandate in the House of Representatives to the killing of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany.  The controversy was just the latest in a series of incendiary comments from Greene that stretch back to before she was elected last year. “Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of… Source link