Category: Google

Google has announced the discontinuation of multiple Privacy Sandbox APIs previously developed to replace third-party cookies in Chrome and Android. Anthony Chavez, Vice President of Privacy Sandbox at Google, confirmed the decision, citing industry feedback and limited adoption of the proposed alternatives.

Advertising is the basis for monetizing digital content and services on the Internet. However, in order to select more relevant ads, advertising networks are forced to collect as much information about users as possible. This comes close to the violation of privacy. Things get even more controversial when the largest representatives of the advertising business begin to promote the idea of ​​privacy.

Google is changing the way its mobile search results appear for the end user by removing the display of full Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). This will affect all searches performed on smartphones and tablets.

Sundar Pichai, the Chief Executive Officer of Google, has revealed that the company is preparing significant changes for the search engine by the year 2025. According to him, Google will have the capability to address increasingly complex issues.

The Google Drive website is set to receive a dark theme, which will only be available in file view mode. Once the option will become available to you, you will see a notification saying "New! Dark mode" and the message "Continue to enjoy Drive in the dark."

Google will soon remove the ability to view a cached version of a webpage. The company has already removed the cached links from search, and the "cache:" operator in the URL is the next subject to be killed. While the links have gone, the cache operator still works. It is currently only applicable to web searches and provides users with access to a cached version of a webpage generated by Google.

Effective February 2024, Gmail and Yahoo will implement new regulations for bulk mailings. These regulations will impact users who send over 5,000 emails per day. The purpose of these rules is to address the growing issue of spam that users frequently express concern about.

According to Google, abandoned accounts often have weak or compromised passwords and lack two-factor authentication. Google's analysis revealed that inactive accounts are at least 10 times less likely to have two-step verification compared to active accounts, making them vulnerable to malicious activities such as data theft and unwanted content distribution when compromised.

Google will gradually block third-party cookies in Chrome as part of its Privacy Box initiative. Testing will begin in early 2024 with a 1% user sample, followed by a larger-scale implementation in the third quarter of the same year.

Google has taken steps to remove "pirated" URLs from collections of saved links by users. Over 7 billion requests have been processed under the DMCA law for copyright infringement.