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When it comes to user tracking on the Internet, Google continues to have a firm hold on the top positions. Kaspersky released its annual web tracking report for the past year. The data comes from a Do Not Track plugin that Kaspersky uses in its software products. It is designed to prevent different forms of…
Threat actors have launched another malvertising campaign on Google Search. While that is not really anything to write about anymore in this day and age, this time is special. Not only did the threat actors manage to plant scam ads on Google, they did furthermore impersonate Google’s entire product line and used Google domains for…
Influencers play an important role in marketing today. They tend to have a certain reach that makes cooperations with them attractive to companies. It should not come as a surprise that influencers get offers to test devices. Companies send them the devices free of charge in the hope that they get a review by the…
Google announced several new Pixel devices this week as well as new AI and services, some of them exclusive at the time of writing. The company’s main announcement on its official The Keyword website focuses more on software and services, and less on the hardware of the Pixel devices. Among the new features is a…
Google announced this year’s Pixel upgrade on its Made by Google event yesterday. As Google puts it, these are the most powerful Pixel devices ever. They are also the most expensive ones. You find information about the hardware features of the four Pixel devices — Pixel 9, Pro, Pro XL, and Fold — on numerous…
Android 15 could ship with a taskbar on smartphones. This taskbar works similarly to the one known from tablets or operating systems such as Windows. Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman discovered the taskbar feature recently and has published information about its functionality and current state. Up until recently, taskbars on smartphones were frowned upon. Google, Apple,…
Google unveiled Google TV Streamer today. The box will replace the company’s own Chromecast devices to compete against the likes of Apple TV. Here are the main details: Google says that TV Streamer supports Matter and Thread, and that it comes with Gemini technology. Here, Google says that Gemini may provide “full summaries, reviews, and…
Android Authority reports that Google is working on a new Play Store feature to take over ownership of sideloaded apps. This would allow Google Play to update apps not installed via the official Store. A feature introduced in Android 14 allows application stores to update ownership of apps. When you download an app from a…
A report suggests that Google has sneaked code into Chromium-based browsers that is favoring Google-owned properties. Browsers like Chrome, Brave, and Microsoft Edge appear affected. If true, it would give critics of Google’s dominance in web browsing a mighty powerful argument. Here are the details: Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers give *.google.com sites full…
Google is informing customers currently that it is shutting down VPN by Google One “later this year”. I reviewed VPN by Google One in March 2023 and concluded that it was “the most basic VPN that you can get”. Subscribers would get access to the VPN if they paid Google at least $1.99 per month….