Chrome
EFF Angry as Google Keeps 3rd-Party Cookies in Chrome
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising, Advertising and AdTech, adverts, Chrome, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, cookie, Cookie Consent, cookieconsent, cookies, Data Privacy, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FLEDGE, FLoC, GOOG, google, Google Chrome, ICO, information commissioner's office, IP Protection, Privacy, Privacy Sandbox, regulatory capture, SB Blogwatch, Surveillance capitalism, Topics, tracking, tracking cookies, web cookie, zero trust
Regulatory capture by stealth? Google changes its mind about third-party tracking cookies—we’re stuck with them for the foreseeable ...
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How Chrome’s Third-Party Cookie Restrictions Affect User Authentication?
Google Chrome has planned to phase out third-party cookies, which will affect different website functionalities depending on third-party cookies. This blog focuses on how this phase-out affects identity and user authentication and ...
Google Hates Ad Blockers: Manifest V3 Push Starts Today
Richi Jennings | | ad blockers, ad-blocker, ad-blocking, adblock, adblockers, adblocking, adblocks, adtech, Advertising and AdTech, browser extension, Chrome, Chrome extension, chrome extensions, google, Google Chrome, Manifest V3, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, uBlock Origin
We warned you. As of June 3, Google is following through on its threat to kill ad blockers. Privacy-focused Chrome extensions are living on borrowed time; developers must upgrade to the less ...
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Chrome’s Incognito Mode Isn’t as Private as You Think — but Google’s Not Sorry
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising, Advertising and AdTech, adverts, breach of privacy, browser, browser abuse, Chrome, cookie, Cookie Consent, cookieconsent, cookies, customer privacy, Data Privacy, FLEDGE, FLoC, GOOG, google, Google Ad, Google AdSense, Google advertising, Google Chrome, Google Chrome Security, Incognito, Incognito Mode, Link History, Privacy, Privacy Sandbox, SB Blogwatch, Topics, tracking cookies, web cookie
Short term gain for long term pain? Class action attorney David Boies asked for $5,000 per user, but got nothing—except some assurances Google will delete data it no longer needs ...
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Google Whistles While OAuth Burns — ‘MultiLogin’ 0-Day is 70+ Days Old
Richi Jennings | | access-token-manipulation, authentication token, Business Associate Agreements, Chrome, chrome 0-day, chrome phishing, Chrome Security, Chromium, Chromium-Based Browsers, Federated Identity, federated sso, google, Google Account, google account security, Google Advanced Protection, infostealer, infostealers, OAuth, oauth 2.0, oauth abuse, Oauth Application Abuse, oauth refresh token, OAuth Token Vunerability, Prisma, Protecting OAuth Tokens, SB Blogwatch, securing oauth
What a Mickey Mouse operation: Infostealer scrotes having a field day with unpatched vulnerability ...
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Google to Force-Block Ad Blockers — Time to Get Firefox?
Richi Jennings | | ad blockers, ad-blocker, ad-blocking, adblock, adblockers, adblocking, adblocks, adtech, Advertising and AdTech, Chrome, Chrome extension, chrome extensions, google, Manifest V3, SB Blogwatch, uBlock Origin
Manifest V3: Destiny. Huge advertising monopoly flexes muscles: “Manifest V2” extensions to be nuked, but “V3” cripples ad blockers ...
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Firefox and Chrome Updates Patch High-Severity Vulnerabilities
Rohan Timalsina | | Chrome, CVE, Firefox, Firefox and Chrome Updates, Google updates, Linux & Open Source News, Mozilla, security patches, security vulnerabilites
Mozilla and Google have recently released important security updates for their web browsers, Firefox and Chrome. These updates include patches for several vulnerabilities, including some potentially harmful memory safety bugs. First, let’s ...
VICTORY: Google WEI ‘Stealth DRM’ Plan is Dead (or is it?)
Richi Jennings | | adtech, attestation, Chrome, digital rights management, DRM, environment attestation, freedom to tinker, google, IntegrityToken, SB Blogwatch, Web Environment Integrity, WebView Media Integrity API, WEI, wmi
WEI is dead — long live WMI: Google backs down on Web Environment Integrity API, but its replacement is also problematic ...
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Don’t Be Evil: Google’s Scary ‘IP Protection’ Privacy Plan
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising and AdTech, anonymization proxy, Anti-Fingerprinting, Browser Fingerprinting, Chrome, Cloud Proxy, Data Privacy, device fingerprinting, EU GDPR, fingerprinting, GDPR, GDPR compliance, gdpr eu, gdpr legislation, GeoIP, Gnatcatcher, google, Google Chrome, IP address, IP address tracker, IP Protection, Privacy, proxy, proxy server, proxy servers, proxy service, SB Blogwatch, Surveillance capitalism, tracking, zero trust
Firefox here we come! “Free” privacy proxy for all Chrome users? What could POSSIBLY go wrong? ...
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Patch EVERYTHING: Widely Used ‘WebP’ Code has Critical Bug
Richi Jennings | | Buffer Overflow, buffer overflow attack, Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, buffer overflows, Chrome, Chromium, edge, Electron, Exploitable Vulnerabilities, Firefox, google, Heap Overflow, libwebp, Open Source and Software Supply Chain Risks, open source software supply chain, open source software supply chain security, opera, SB Blogwatch, secure software supply chain, slack, software supply chain, software supply chain hygiene, software supply chain risk, Software Supply Chain risks, software supply chain security, Software Supply Chain Security Risks, thunderbird, WebP
WebP FAIL. Critical vuln in libwebp: Go get updates to Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Slack and more ...
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