Tag: Chrome

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Microsoft Edge overtakes Firefox in user percentage

Microsoft Edge overtakes Firefox in user percentage

For the first time since the introduction of Microsoft Edge, the browser's popularity has passed Mozilla Firefox by. The number of users of Microsoft's browser increased just enough in March to end up higher than the declining percentage of Firefox users. At the top of the list of most used brow... Read more

date4 years ago

Google reverses samesite cookies feature on Chrome

Due to the outbreak of the corona virus, Google will immediately reverse the recently added privacy feature regarding samesite cookies. This is to prevent that certain websites are suddenly no longer accessible to users. At the beginning of this year, Google introduced the feature for a number o... Read more

date4 years ago
Chrome 80 blocks popular data-stealing malware AZORult

Chrome 80 blocks popular data-stealing malware AZORult

Buying login data through the Genesis Store was, for a long time, largely possible through a malware strain called AZORult. Ninety percent of acquired credentials would be captured using that specific malware, after which Google took action: with Chrome 80, the malware will no longer work. Resea... Read more

date4 years ago
Google launches Chrome 80: silent popups and same-site cookies

Google launches Chrome 80: silent popups and same-site cookies

Once again, a major update of Google for web browser Chrome has been rolled out. With version 80 a quieter notification of popups is introduced, as well as allowing first-party cookies by default unless website owners indicate that third-party cookies are sent over a secure connection. Google al... Read more

date4 years ago
Are browser extensions still safe to use?

Are browser extensions still safe to use?

Browser extensions have been around for years now, both Chrome, Firefox and Safari support browser extensions. Since a few weeks, Microsoft Edge joined as they switched to Chromium, the same browser engine as Google Chrome. The number of security issues, fraud reports and privacy risks with browser... Read more

date4 years ago
Criticism towards Google after changes around advertised links

Criticism towards Google after changes around advertised links

Instead of a clearly separated 'ad' in a box, Google Search has been displaying advertised links in search results with a different indication since the beginning of this month. An indication that, according to critics, makes it much harder to clearly see that it concerns a result for which money w... Read more

date4 years ago
Google wants to get rid of third-party Chrome cookies in two years

Google wants to get rid of third-party Chrome cookies in two years

With the aim of improving the privacy of internet users, Google announced a new initiative at the end of 2019: Privacy Sandbox. One of the aspects addressed in this initiative, which will be given priority in the coming years, is ending support for cookies from external parties. Google is not th... Read more

date4 years ago
Google Chrome will block pop-ups for web notifications by default

Google Chrome will block pop-ups for web notifications by default

Google is following the example of Mozilla Firefox and will make the website notification system from Chrome 80, which appears next month, a lot less cumbersome for users. The possibility of push notifications for websites may once have seemed a good idea, and it certainly has its usefulness in ... Read more

date4 years ago
Extension for management of crypto-keys steals data

Extension for management of crypto-keys steals data

According to researchers, an extension for Google Chrome that should make it easier for owners of multiple crypto-wallets to manage them, turns out to run off with those keys. In a twitter post, Harry Denley, security director at MyCrypto, states that an app called Shitcoin Wallet can be dangero... Read more

date4 years ago
Google introduces Site Kit plugin for WordPress

Google introduces Site Kit plugin for WordPress

At the end of last week, Google officially introduced the WordPress plugin for Site Kit, which aims to give website administrators as well as marketing and advertising agencies more insight into the behaviour of their website visitors. The open-source plugin Site Kit combines all kinds of visito... Read more

date4 years ago
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