Google Chrome Extensions such as uBlock Origin are switched off as the browser firm enforces security updates.

If you’re a Chrome user you’re being tracked. We hoped it would be less invasive by now with the death of tracking cookies. But it isn’t. In fact it’s worse with the surprise revival of digital fingerprinting,

Google is changing how Chrome extensions work on the desktop and Chromebooks. While the Manifest V3 changes are billed as ways to improve safety and efficiency, the way they also limit how adblocking extensions like uBlock Origin work has drawn a lot of criticism.

It looks like Google is preparing to roll out Chrome's AI-powered history search feature outside the United States.

Google continues its rollout of gradually disabling uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in the Chrome web browser as part of its efforts to push users to Manifest V3-based extensions.

Google's long-running project to eliminate cookies from Chrome is about to wind up, but it has come with a reversal of course that now allows device fingerprinting. The new Google rules were quietly announced in December of last year but seemed to slip beneath the radar.

Since its founding in 2022, Perplexity has been known for shaking up the world of online search. With the debut of Comet, the company is aiming to expand its innovation beyond search engines and transform how users interact with the internet.

Google is rolling out new search gestures that allow iPhone users to highlight anything on their screen to quickly search for it. The Lens screen-searching feature is available on iOS in both the Google app and Chrome browser and provides a similar experience to Android’s Circle to Search, which isn’t supported on iPhones.

Google Chrome OS 133 adds several minor new features related to accessibility, screencasts, Bluetooth microphones, and more.

Google Chrome has updated the existing "Enhanced protection" feature with AI to offer "real-time" protection against dangerous websites, downloads and extensions.

Although it ended up as a browser that has a RAM footprint akin to the mass of a small brown dwarf star, it simply provided people with a slicker, seamless experience than what Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape, or Firefox could back in the day.