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How to Enable Heavy Ad Intervention In Google Chrome
Starting in version 80, Google Chrome includes a new feature, known as 'Heavy Ad Intervention'. When enabled, it blocks ads that heavily abuse PC resources, e.g. CPU, GPU, and/or abnormally utilize the bandwidth. Sounds not bad, right? Let's see how to enable it.
As you may already know, Google and its web browser had started a war against the plain HTTP. The recently released Chrome 80 forces HTTP resources to be loaded via HTTPS, otherwise it leaves them blocked until the explicit user interaction. The company reveals the next step they would take, this time against HTTP downloads.
Starting on August 5, 2020, Google Chrome include an updated content blocking feature to block intrusive ads. In order to determine which ads are the most intrusive to web experience, Google relies on Better Ads Standards.
How to Enable Quieter Notification Permission Prompts in Google Chrome (Quieter Messaging)
Starting in Google Chrome 80 you can enable a new feature - 'Quiet UI'. It will reduce the number of annoying notification prompts for web sites you browse. Here's how it works, and how to enable it.
How to Enable Tab Groups In Google Chrome
Starting in Google Chrome 80 the browser introduces a new GUI feature - Tab Grouping. It allows combining individual tabs into visually organized groups. Tab Grouping is enabled to a small group of users, but you can add it to your browser if it is not visible by default.
Google Chrome 80 is out today. Version 80 comes with the Scroll-To-Text feature, Tab Freezing, Notification restrictions for abusive web sites, Cookie safety improvements, and much more.
You may already know that one of the improvements made to Edge over Chromium and Chrome is the ability to move multiple selected tabs to a new window. A similar feature is only coming to Chrome. Collaboration between engineers of the two software giants will make it possible to have Edge's version of the tab moving feature in Chrome natively.
Google today revealed a couple of changes that will be done to Google Chrome in the future. The browser will prevent sites from managing third-party cookies, e.g. from setting the cookie trackers which spy on users over the Internet. Also, Google wants to drop the User Agent line to stop differentiating browsers by it. The company offers an alternative, which instead will briefly report supported features and capabilities.
Despite it being over ten years old, Windows 7 is still one of the most popular operating systems available today. Next week, however, will see Microsoft end support for it, and stop providing security fixes and updates. This has left a question about what programs will remain compatible with Windows 7.
As you may already know, one of the key changes in Firefox 72 is a reworked notification system that suppresses notification requests for certain web sites, especially for sites which try to subscribe you to their notifications without your interaction. Google Chrome devs are also working in this area. A new announcement from Google sheds some light on notification changes that are coming to Chrome 80.
