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500+ malvertising Google Chrome extensions disabled, removed from Web Store

Harmful malvertising Google Chrome Extensions were active over at least eight months. The extensions redirected millions of users to malicious sites, including to affiliate links or a GDPR announcement site in an apparent attempt to misdirect investigations and appear legitimate. Malicious ads. Security researcher Jamila Kaya and Cisco’s Duo Security team identified the group of […]

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Microsoft Office hits pause on forcing Bing search in Chrome, Firefox

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Microsoft recently announced a new “extension” as part of an update to its Office 365 ProPlus software that forcibly changes company-wide Chrome and Firefox search engine defaults to Bing search, automatically, from what is likely set to Google. After considerable backlash, the company is reversing course, a bit. In a predatory fashion, the extension automatically

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The best Google Chrome extensions for business pros

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Google’s Chrome browser rocks. It’s reliable, efficient and nicely cross-platform. Chrome is the most-used browser in the U.S. by far, with 66.9% market share as of January 2020, compared to 13.6% for the second-place Edge/Internet Explorer combo from Microsoft, according to metrics vendor Net Applications. Chrome offers a wealth of extensions as well, with more than

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Default Search in Chrome Switched to Bing for Office 365 ProPlus users

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In a move that taps into the default effect, Microsoft’s Office 365 ProPlus (version 2002+) has coupled up with Bing to make Bing the default search engine for Google Chrome web browser for devices in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, United Kingdom, and the United States. Why would they do this? Microsoft Search comes with

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Marketers respond to Google Chrome cookie decision with mixture of hope and fear

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Last week Google announced it would end support for third-party cookies in Chrome by 2022 or sooner. Google said it would use its “Privacy Sandbox” as an arena to develop alternatives for ad targeting and conversion tracking. Google is explicitly trying to balance ad personalization and consumer privacy. The company said in its blog post,

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Google Chrome 80 Is Restricting Cookie Tracking in Feb 2020

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Photo by Ellieelien on Unsplash With all the fear and panic surrounding Apple’s ITP 2.2 and 2.3 updates this year, did the industry forget that ITP-like restrictions are coming to Google Chrome 80, too? Unfortunately, it appears so, according to a recent AdExchanger article: “Google is less than two months away from instituting a policy

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Google Chrome: Third-party cookies will be gone by 2022

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Third-party cookies have been living on borrowed time, given their increasing rejection by the major browsers. And today Google announced support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser would be phased out “within two years.” The company seeks to replace them with a browser-based mechanism as part of its “Privacy Sandbox” initiative. The Privacy Sandbox

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Chrome 80 Will Block Push Notification

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Google’s Chrome version 80 will begin blocking website push notifications. While Chrome will allow users to opt-in to the push blocking, some sites will be automatically enrolled into the blocking feature. Publishers and developers are urged to read Google’s best practices to avoid having their push notifications blocked. Automatic Push Notification Blocking There are two

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Alice Keeler Chrome Extensions – Teacher Tech

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I have been doing some updating on my Chrome extensions so I’m hoping you’ll try them out and shamelessly ask that you’ll leave a nice review 🙂 I’m really passionate about collaboration and feedback. I created most of these extensions to help me more effectively do that. Chrome Webstore alicekeeler.com/webstore AnyoneCanView Chrome extension for AnyoneCanView

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Chromebooks will let developers more easily sideload Android apps with Chrome OS 80

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Chromebooks are able to run Android apps, but mostly just ones from the Google Play Store — if you wanted to install something that’s not officially sanctioned, you’d generally need to flip your device into a far less secure Developer Mode and/or beam it over from a tethered phone. That won’t be the case with

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