Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Chrome.
Google plans to restrict modern adblockers to business Chrome users. The so-called Manifest V3 makes adblockers, such as uBlock Origin, no longer work. Modern adblockers use Chromes webRequest to block ads before they are downloaded. According to Forbes, Manifest V3 is undergoing a major transformat... Read more
5 years ago
Google has announced a stricter privacy policy for extensions in Google Chrome and apps that use Google Drive cloud storage. Extensions, for example, can no longer just ask for broad access to data. According to Google itself, there are now over 180,000 extensions in the Chrome Web Store and almost... Read more
5 years ago
By exploiting the way Chrome displays the address bar on the smartphone, hackers can hide their malicious phishing URL. The bug was recently discovered by an investigator, and is not yet necessarily abused in the wild. If you scroll down a website in Chrome on your smartphone, you will see the addre... Read more
5 years ago
As of today, Google will make Chrome 74 available on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS and Android. The new version includes a number of security updates, better data savings on Android and the long-awaited Dark Mode. If you want to use Dark Mode, you don't have to look in the settings menu of Chrome. ... Read more
5 years ago
A former Mozilla CEO, the organization behind the Firefox browser, accuses Google of deliberately and systematically sabotaging Firefox to increase Chrome's adoption. That's what ZDNet writes. When I joined Mozilla in 2007, there was no Google Chrome and most of the people we talked to within [Goog... Read more
5 years ago
Microsoft released a significantly improved version of Skype for Web last Thursday. But the new version didn't work in a number of browsers. The company now lets us know that this was a conscious choice. The technique does not work in Apples Safari, Mozillas Firefox or Opera. Microsoft will inform t... Read more
5 years ago
Google has announced that a patch that it rolled out to web browser Chrome on March 1 solves a zero-day exploit that has been actively exploited. Updating your browser immediately is therefore very important. There are not many details about the update and the exploit. A zero-day is a vulnerability ... Read more
5 years ago
More than a third of all extensions for Google Chrome ask users to access all their data on any site. A recent study into the more than 120,000 Chrome extensions has shown this to be the case. Roughly 85 percent of these extensions appear to have no further privacy policy. Last month, the research t... Read more
5 years ago
A backdoor in Chrome's incognito mode tells websites when the privacy feature is activated. Google will rectify this omission in the next version of the browser. Although incognito mode is primarily intended to allow surfing without leaving a browsing history or cookies, it can also be used to bypas... Read more
5 years ago
Google is implementing its plan to block adblockers in Chrome. A study shows that the motivation to remove support for adblockers was based on fallacy. Last month it came to light that Google wanted to dispose of adblock extensions for Chromium browsers. Google didn't say that in so many words, but ... Read more
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