Google says it will stop tracking you on the web via ads next year
Mar 4, 2021 04:14 EST with 22 comments
A major slice of revenue of revenue for Alphabet comes via its subsidiary company, Google. Similarly, a significant portion of Google s revenue comes via search and ads. To accomplish this, the firm uses third-party cookies and trackers to identify user activity across the web, in order to present personalized ads and other suggestions.
This follows Google s announcement from earlier this month that it is phasing out support for third-party cookies. This is a part of the endeavor to make the web privacy-first. To that end, Google has confirmed that once cookies are phased out, it will not be building any identifiers at all to track user activity either across the web or in its products.
Mar 4, 2021 14:40 EST with 5 comments
Google has announced that it’s shifting things up a gear by switching Chrome to a four-week release cycle that will see users get the latest features more quickly. As things stand, Google releases major Chrome updates every six weeks and has done so for over a decade. The new changes will come about in the third quarter with the release of Chrome 94.
The firm said that as its testing and release processes for Chrome have improved, it has noticed that it’s able to shorten its release cycle so that users can benefit from new features more quickly. Of course, Google hasn’t forgotten about system administrators and has said it’ll have an Extended Stable option where milestone updates will be available for download every two months.
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Google Chrome 89 Now Available for Download Mar 3, 2021 13:44 GMT
Google Chrome 89 up for grabs
Google has recently announced that Chrome 89 landed in the stable channel, and just as expected, it comes with several important improvements.
First and foremost, there are major security patches, with Google explaining that it addressed a number of 47 security vulnerabilities, some of them flagged with a high severity rating.
A heap buffer overflow in TabStrip reported by Khalil Zhani and described in CVE-2021-21159 earned the security researcher a bounty of $10,000, according to Google.
Chrome 89 now requires SSE3 processors, with Google itself claiming only a small number of devices are likely to be impacted, and comes with options to search open tabs.