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Chrome’s coming changes to video ad blocking could impact YouTube

Google Chrome’s ad blocking efforts will soon extend to “intrusive” video ads. The browser will adopt the latest standards for video ads from the Coalition for Better Ads, announced Wednesday. The changes will apply to certain pre-roll, mid-roll and non-linear display ads — and likely affect advertising formats on Google’s own YouTube. Three types of […]

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Could Chrome’s targetText functionality have uses beyond Featured Snippets on desktop?

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I’ve been running a few mini experiments at the moment with Featured Snippets when exposed to targetText results within Search. One of my experiments involved seeing if targetText would work with hidden content. It surprisingly did, but there was more to that story than what meets the eye. Since I’ve written a couple of articles

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Google Chrome’s Recent Privacy Updates to Alter the Online Marketing Space

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Serina Fignole – July 3, 2019 In recent years, the online world has shifted its focus on improving and increasing privacy and security for its users. That said, Google announced in early May that it would be updating its Chrome browser to give users more information about how they’re being tracked across the web using

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Open Webpages by Default in Chrome’s Incognito Mode

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Incognito Mode or “private browsing” is a privacy feature that disables the browsing history of the Chrome browser. Apart from that, it allows you to browse websites without storing local data, cookies, cache, etc. Many a time, this mode is also used for secure browsings like carrying out certain banking or transaction activities. But it

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Chrome’s ‘Mixed Content’ Updates Could Impact Ecommerce Sites

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Google Chrome just announced important changes that could impact ecommerce sites. The changes address “mixed content” on a web page. Beyond text, a typical web page includes images, audio files, and videos. Those additional non-text resources frequently load as HTTP requests, not HTTPS. The dual requests are mixed content. HTTP requests pose a security risk, which

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How to Use Chrome’s Picture-in-Picture Mode to Play Local Videos

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The Picture-in-Picture (PiP) extension for Google Chrome lets you watch videos on the internet in PiP mode. However, if you want to watch a video from your local drive, you can use Chrome to play it in a PiP window. For this guide, you can use either the built-in PiP mode or the official Chrome

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How Google Chrome’s cross-site cookie & fingerprinting changes will affect marketers – Econsultancy

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By most estimates, Google Chrome is the world’s most popular web browser with market share above 60%. That means when Chrome changes, the effects can be significant and at recent the Google I/O conference, the Chromium team announced upcoming changes to Chrome that will likely impact marketers. The first change addresses cookie privacy and will

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Safari’s ITP lead on Chrome’s tracking prevention: It ‘has a long way to go’

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John Wilander, Apple Webkit engineer and architect of Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) solution, said Wednesday that Chrome’s new approach to privacy and cookie handling will do little to stop trackers. Google announced Tuesday that it is changing the way its Chrome browser handles third-party cookies and will more aggressively aim to limit fingerprinting. It will

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How to Fix Google Chrome’s Serious Security Issue in 1 Minute

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The Problem: As reported by Forbes contributor on Cyber-security, David Winder – Google confirmed a serious Chrome Security problem that needs any Chrome user’s immediate attention. 1. Copy this into your browser: chrome://settings/help 2. Ensure it says you’re running version 72.0.3626.121 (Official Build) 3. If not, hit “relaunch” and Chrome should go fetch and update your browser automatically*

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