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• No need to mourn the death of the third-party cookie

  Amid the whirlwinds of the industry’s response, it’s become abundantly clear that the demise of the cookie is probably ...

  • Ben Jacobson

• Google Chrome will let you group and label tabs starting next week

  "There are two types of people in the world: tab minimalists who have just a few tabs open at a time and tab collectors who have...significantly more." So opens Google's blog post detailing its new tab grouping feature for Chrome. I'm definitely among the latter, so this feature ...

  • Napier Lopez

• How to change your default search engine on Google Chrome

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Yesterday, Google added support for search engines such as Yandex, Ecosia, and DuckDuckGo, in various countries. That means, if you don't want ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google Chrome can now show devs how their sites look to users with visual impairments

  Google's popular Chrome browser has launched a new tool to help developers tune their websites for different visual deficiencies such as color blindness and blurred vision. Mathias Bynes, a Google employee working on developer tools for Chrome, tweeted a demo video showing how ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• How to enable Google Chrome's secret ‘reader mode’ for distraction-free reading

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Last year, Google Chrome rolled out its version 75 with a hidden reader mode. It's quite a nifty feature to read long articles without any ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google Chrome to block insecure downloads starting this spring

  Google today announced that it would soon warn Chrome users about “insecure” downloads, the first move in a plan to block them entirely. “Today we’re announcing that Chrome will gradually ensure that secure (HTTPS) pages only download secure files,” said Joe DeBlasio ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Dodgy Google Chrome extension reportedly causes $16K crypto theft

  A malicious Google Chrome extension has reportedly cost one user Ledger user around $16,000 worth of the cryptocurrency Zcash. ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• The pros and cons of how Google Chrome encrypts DNS activity

  Thanks to the expansion of HTTPS, the secure version of the original HTTP protocol, most internet traffic is encrypted today, improving your privacy and protecting your browsing data from the wary eyes of eavesdroppers. Major browsers like Google Chrome and Firefox warn you if you ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Don’t trust Google Chrome’s incognito mode

  Privacy is fast becoming a hard-to-earn luxury. As you browse through websites, it’s hard to shake off the creepy feeling that wherever you go, unseen eyes are watching you: Google, Facebook, your internet service provider, the government, the person sitting next to you, ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Google Chrome 76 will make it easier to bypass paywalls

  Google disables Flash by default, and makes it easy to bypass pawalls in the beta version of Chrome 76 browser that was released ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google Chrome’s ad-blocking feature will roll out worldwide in July

  Google Chrome is going to roll out ad-blocking functionality for its users worldwide starting July 9 this year for better ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google Chrome's next release will address privacy concerns with cookies and sign-ins

  Google today said that it will make changes in the Chrome browser to address privacy concerns regarding cookies and user ...

  • Ivan Mehta