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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, where our privacy rights are respected regardless of how profitable they may be to tech companies.

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 Google's use," Jochen Eisinger, Chrome engineering director, wrote in a Jan. 15 post to a company blog. Access to what Eisinger labeled "our private Chrome APIs" will be blocked starting March 15. Although Eisinger mentioned only two APIs by name �...

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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 the outage that its workplace status dashboard showed began at 6:55 a.m. Eastern time for all of its...

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 Gmail — suspending work and school accounts for tens of millions of users. Google blamed an �...