Google confirmed it blocked some Australian news websites for a small number of users. The government reacted and asked the giant to focus on paying for Australian content, rather than blocking access to it.
Media reported news websites blocked
Some media reported…
Google’s rules
for ad blockers change dramaticaly, as Google makes most of its money
from ads. Its newest Chrome browser extension platform – Manifest
v3,created lots of controversy. It happened as it meant to get rid of
the blocking capabilities that webRequest API…
Marketers for an Opeb Web (MOW) attacked Sandbox, from Google. This is the company’s anti-tracking project which should “create a thriving web ecosystem that is respectful of users and private by default,” according to Google.
In other words, this should mean…
Google will track users who
watch video ads on YouTube for a longer time, in order to see if they
convert even after seeing a promotion.
The
search giant announced
that it would bring a new
way to correlate conversions with video ads. And this would count
even those…
The new Chrome ad blocker that comes with version 85 is meant to save Google’s browser and its ads. The new feature surprised all the users and the industry, too.
But it’s, in fact, the way Google tries to save its browser and help its ads system bring more…
Google integrates with the latest version of TCF (Transparency and Consent Framework) v2 released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe.
The decision should provide users “with transparency and control over how their data is used – and ensure their…
The search giant decided to help users discover scams with a new website. Google announced Scamspotter.org, where anyone can learn how to spot fraud schemes, during the pandemic.
Google said that Scamspotter can reveal dishonest schemes, such as false stimulus, fake…
In an article published by Scott Spencer,
Google promises to stop bad ads. Scott Spencer, Vice President of
Product Management, Ads Privacy and Safety said that this commitment
is especially important now.
A task force for COVID-19
During the COVID-19 outbreak…
Google released security patches to stomp out severe flaws in Chrome. So, the company announced that patches for all the bugs Google disclosed will be available in the next few days.
No less than eight security bugs were addressed in Chrome browser version 80.0.3987.162…
A clever phishing campaign uses Google News to trick users. This impersonates Google’s news website, by using homographic characters. Thus, attackers redirect unsuspecting users to phishing pages. In these attacks, American Standard Code for Information Interchange…
