After telling advertisers and affiliate networks for several years that Google would be ending the use of 3rd party tracking cookies, they just announced last week that instead they will make cookie tracking optional inside of Chrome. This however is effectively almost the same as turning off cookie tracking as when one looks to what…
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Chrome to Sunset Use of 3rd-Party Ad-Targeting Cookies
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…
YouTube tightens raises traffic requirements for content creators to earn revenue
In response to advertiser complaints, YouTube plans on imposing stricter criteria for the types of videos that can earn revenue and additionally will introduce a new process to vet for the top-shelf videos it offers advertisers. New minimum requirements to participate in the advertising sharing program is that user accounts must have more than 1,000 subscribers…

Google search no longer allows you to check other country results
Big changes with google searches. It used to be that you could search for a keyword on google.com and then google.co.uk (UK) and google.co.jp (Japan) and get difference local results relevant to each location. Now Google will only show you results based on your current location, regardless of the TLD extension you use for the…