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Chrome 70 Arrives With Option To Disable Linked Sign-Ins, PWAs On Windows, and AV1 Decoder (venturebeat.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the new-and-improved dept.

Krystalo quotes a report from VentureBeat: Google today launched Chrome 70 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The release includes an option to disable linking Google site and Chrome sign-ins, Progressive Web Apps on Windows, the ability for users to restrict extensions' access to a custom list of sites, an AV1 decoder, and plenty more. You can update to the latest version now using Chrome's built-in updater or download it directly from google.com/chrome. An anonymous Slashdot reader adds: "The most anticipated addition to today's release is a new Chrome setting panel option that allows users to control how the browser behaves when they log into a Google account," reports ZDNet. "Google added this new setting after the company was accused last month of secretly logging users into their Chrome browser accounts whenever they logged into a Google website." Chrome 70 also comes with support for the AV1 video format, TLS 1.3 final, per-site Chrome extension permissions, TouchID and fingerprint sensor authentication, the Shape Detection API (gives Chrome the ability to detect and identify faces, barcodes, and text inside images or webcam feeds), and, last but not least, 23 security fixes.

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  1. So, I post something google doesn't like by Snotnose · · Score: 1, Troll

    I no longer lose gmail, g++ (whatever they called it), my google office files, and all other google related content? And my only recourse is a web thingie that humans never read?

    Doesn't matter. Soon as I heard they were disabling gmail and goffice (whatever it's called, never used it) when you said something they didn't like on their "platform" I switched to duckduckgo, thunderbird (thank you google for giving me IMAP/POP3 support), and LibreOffice. The only google services I use now are mail (via Thunderbird and IMAP/POP3) and driving (on my phone).

    While I have your attention, my laptop took a dump a couple days ago and can't be recovered (hard drive failure). Everything is backed up,I paid lots for my new laptop to be delivered tomorrow (wednesday), but I don't remember how I set up Thunderbird to download my gmail and let me deal with 2 accounts in a reasonable way (default gmail sux ass. Tagged messages as opposed to folders? Stupid beyond belief). You can save me 5 minutes of duckduckgo searches by providing a link in this thread. Yeah, I'm lazy :)