While rivals have warned of Google’s privacy problems and market dominance through monopoly power, many are reportedly hesitant to pursue antitrust measures due to their reliance on the tech giant’s money. In the case of Mozilla, which makes the Firefox browser to rival Google’s Chrome, the vast majority of its revenue comes from an agreement to make Google the browser’s default search option.
Tech giant Google reportedly keeps user data from YouTube and Google.com even after users of its Google Chrome web browser request that the browser purge all website cookies and site data. The Internet giant claims it isn’t another flex of its monopoly power, but rather, a “bug in Chrome.”
A recent report from Reuters alleges that a newly discovered and massive spyware effort attacked users of the Google Chrome web browser through browser extensions downloaded 32 million times. According to security expert Ben Johnson, “Anything that gets you into somebody’s browser or email or other sensitive areas would be a target for national espionage as well as organized crime.”
Google has reportedly pulled over 500 malicious Chrome extensions from its Web Store, with some active on the site for over a year. The extensions used the computers of millions of people to commit ad fraud and steal data.
Google has been accused by its competitor in the browser space, Brave, of secretly funneling the personal data of its users to advertisers, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Google announced on Thursday that it will create a “privacy sandbox” for Chrome, in an attempt to give users more control over the web browser. Advertisers, however, will still be able to track consumers, as an engineer at the tech giant says that “large scale blocking of cookies” actually undermines privacy.
A new report states that Google plans to close a privacy loophole in its Chrome web browser that allowed publishers to detect if users were in incognito mode and serve them different content.
A new browser extension from Google company Jigsaw, formerly known as Google Ideas, allows users to hide “toxic” comments online.
Google users are concerned about their browsing privacy after a recent update at Google secretly logs Chrome browser users into their online Google accounts, syncing data without asking, a move one expert says has “enormous implications for user privacy and trust.”
New reports out last week claim that the Google Chrome web browser collects data on users even when they are in the private “incognito mode.”
According to the Independent, “Google could have a complete list of almost everything you’ve ever looked at.” Here’s how to delete it.
A Google Chrome browser extension titled “Drop United” allows users to easily filter out United Airlines flights while browsing online.
A new Chrome browser extension titled “Racism Simulator” shows just how racist the left-wing media really is by changing negative references of white people to black.
Google has removed an app that allowed users to surreptitiously identify Jews online after a tech website brought the tool to widespread media attention and spurred a backlash.
For almost 9 million users of Chrome, AVG’s “Web TuneUp” extension has become a major security concern.
