Search engine giant Google has revealed plans to make obsolete an important tool used by advertisers for tracking users around the Internet. While this move will increase user privacy, it will also disrupt the publishers and marketers who are currently reliant on the company’s advertising products. Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., stated that it…
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Google adds ad “filter” to Chrome starting in 2018
In a somewhat controversial move, Google has announced that starting in 2018 their Chrome brower will have an ad “filter” installed. Ostensibly the purpose is to clean up sites that load banner ads that due to poor coding take forever to load and create a negative browsing experience. In general this is a good idea….