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April 9, 2021
Today we’re launching Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment. If you are a subject, we will tell you how your browser is describing you to every website you visit. Am I FLoCed is one of an effort to bring to light the invasive practices of the adtech industry—Google included—with the hope we can create a better internet for all, whe...
January 20, 2021
Google Google plans to revoke others Chromium-based browsers access to a long list of APIs that power such popular services as bookmark and settings synchronization. "We discovered that some third-party Chromium-based browsers were able to integrate Google features, such as Chrome Sync and Click to Call, that are only intended for Googles use," Jochen Eisinger, Chrome engineering director, wrote in a Jan. 15 post to a company blog. Access to what Eisinger labeled "our private Chr...
January 18, 2021
What Google People API means for Apps that Sync Google Calendar with Outlook
December 15, 2020
Gmail, YouTube, other Google services suffer brief worldwide outage Work and school accounts for tens of millions of users were suspended for about 45 minutes. By Hannah DenhamThe Washington Post Share A host of Alphabet services were knocked offline Monday in a worldwide outage spanning the tech giant’s major platforms – including YouTube, Google Drive and Gmail – suspending work and school accounts for tens of millions of users. Google blamed an “internal storage quota issue” for ...
December 14, 2020
Gmail, YouTube and other Google services back online after widespread outage Hannah Denham © Bloomberg/Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomber Google’s workplace status dashboard shows U.S. outages began early Monday for all of its listed services, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs and YouTube. A host of Alphabet services were knocked offline Monday in a worldwide outage spanning the tech giant’s major platforms — including YouTube, Google Drive and...