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Google has scrapped its plan to remove third-party cookies in Chrome — here’s what’s going on
By Anthony Spadafora last updated
Google has shelved its plan to get rid of third-party cookies after years of working on a way to better protect the privacy of Chrome users without hurting online advertising.
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Google’s 'shortsighted' decision to halt plans to kill Chrome third-party cookies is proof Apple was right
By Jason England published
Google is pulling the plug on eliminating third-party cookies in Chrome, and this proves Apple was right all along.
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Apple tells over a billion iPhone users to stop using Chrome — here’s Google’s response
By Jason England last updated
Apple’s latest scary attack ad takes a rather blatant shot at Google’s browser for the ton of tracking cookies it uses — claiming that Safari is “a browser that’s actually private.”
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How to set Chrome flags
By Dale Fox last updated
Chrome has a bunch of hidden features you may not have known about, thanks to the experimental 'flags' menu. Here's how to enable Chrome flags.
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Android apps that open Chrome just got a new picture-in-picture feature
By Scott Younker published
The new Chrome update lets users minimize webpages in a custom tab that's like picture-in-picture for web browsing.
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Gotta collect 'em all — Opera adds Gemini AI to its browser
By Scott Younker published
Browser maker Opera and Google team up to bring Gemini to the Opera browsing experience.
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Feeling slow? These extensions may be bogging Chrome down, says report
By Scott Younker published
A new report examined 5,000 Chrome extensions to determine which ones are slowing the browser down the most.
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Live video translation is coming to Microsoft Edge — what you can do with it
By Dave LeClair published
Microsoft is adding a new feature to Edge that will translate and dub videos from YouTube, LinkedIn, Coursera, and more.
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