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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. Waterfox by Artemis3 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try Waterfox and you won't regret it. Its a clean Firefox, also for Android.

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  2. Restrict extensions? by jbmartin6 · · Score: 2

    the ability for users to restrict extensions' access to a custom list of sites

    To me that is the most interesting thing in there. Abusive extensions are an understated problem IMHO, more so than HTTP/HTTPS. It's a step in the right direction at least, although the biggest problem remains since extensions might 'need' wide permissions and nothing exists to stop them from abusing that.

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  3. Revenue per device by tepples · · Score: 2

    Smart phones? Last I heard Android outsells iPhones by 10-1, worldwide.

    Last I checked (Q1 2018), the mean revenue per user for paid apps and in-app purchases was so much larger on Apple's App Store than on Google Play Store that it outweighed Android's larger user base: "$5.08 was generated per device with the App Store during Q1 compared to only $0.47 with the Play Store."

    You have alternatives in every market they are in.

    With the exception of the market for tools to develop smart phone applications. If you develop such an application on any computer other than a Mac, it will be Android exclusive, and Android users tend to be less willing to pay for apps than iOS users.

  4. Re:Brought to you by by ilsaloving · · Score: 2

    I beg to differ. Microsoft is still very much a monopoly. There is no way they'd be able to get away with the bullshit they're pulling WRT Windows 10 if they weren't a monopoly.

    The only place they are noticeably losing on is anything internet infrastructure related. And that's cause they never really gained much of a foothold to begin with.