“This year we wanted to help you with tracking in apps,” said Katie Skinner, a user privacy software manager at Apple during the keynote. “We believe tracking should always be transparent and under your control. So moving forward, App Store policy will require apps to ask before tracking you across apps and websites owned by […]
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nalyvme/Shutterstock.com Dark mode is now everywhere, including in iOS 13 and Android 10. Web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge have embraced dark mode, too. Now, browsers are bringing automatic dark mode to websites thanks to a feature called prefers-color-scheme. Websites Can Now Detect Dark Mode Like Apps Can Some sites offer dark modes
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Microsoft’s Edge completed a six-month surge in user share that represented a 24% increase and brought the browser to its highest-ever level. According to U.S. analytics vendor Net Applications, Edge’s August user share rose by half a percentage point to 6.3%, a record for the browser in its first four years. During the six months
Google has announced a new initiative that aims to “fundamentally enhance privacy on the web.” The proposal — dubbed “Privacy Sandbox” — is a stab at preventing extensive tracking of users on the web through cookies and other methods like tracking pixels and browser and device fingerprinting. In creating a new standard that puts users
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Google has announced that App ads will appear on more iOS mobile web browser searches. Accordingly, campaign reports will also include installs and in-app conversion events from iOS browsers. There’s nothing app advertisers have to do to gain access to this new ad inventory. Active App campaigns will automatically get the modeled conversions in the
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Analysis In what can only be described as painfully ironic, Microsoft engineers are seemingly convinced that Google is making changes to its websites in order to break rival browsers. Someone claiming to have worked to Microsoft’s Edge team has alleged that Redmond ditched its own browser engine, EdgeHTML, in favor of Google’s Chromium was mainly
Instagram has added notifications to the web-based version of its app. Those who use Instagram on web browsers will now receive (almost) all the same notifications that are sent on the native mobile app. That includes notifications for new followers, likes, and comments. Instagram on web browsers does not support direct messaging, so notifications for
Chart of the Day: Which resolutions of web browsers should you target when testing new website designs? If you have ten people in a room together, chances are high that most of them will have different device types that use a different browser and have a different screen size. This is why it is important
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On Wednesday, Mozilla released its Firefox 60 browser, moving a step closer to password-free login for several websites. Equipped with WebAuthn, this new standard in authentication technology does away with several passwords to reduce phishing attacks. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and FIDO Alliance jointly developed WebAuthn, which has been years in the making.
Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) team has launched a new feature called Render on Idle that is designed to increase ad impressions per page by speeding up ad load when a user isn’t taking any action in a browser. Render on Idle is available to publishers using the DoubleClick AMP ad tag or any ad
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