Google Chrome 71 arrives with blocking against deceptive advertising and more

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Recently Google launched a new version of its web browser Google Chrome 71 and which, at the same time, is available a stable version of the free Chromium project, which serves as the core of Chrome.

With this new release of Google Chrome 71, new features are added to the web browser, as well as various bug fixes.

Main changes in Google Chrome 71

In this new version we can find that audio output via the web audio API is now subject to the rules to block audio autoplay.

The form autocomplete system now ignores input forms that do not load over HTTPS or HTTP.

The button to start playing the video has moved from the center of the screen to the lower left corner.

A slider is returned to the onscreen video playback controls to change the volume level (the slider appears when the cursor is over the speaker icon).

In addition to it added a new internal page "Chrome: // management", which shows the plugins and permissions granted by the administrator.

When accessing the search engine, Google in the address bar now only shows keywords, without a full URL.

To control the display of query parameters in the address bar, you can use the "chrome: // flags / # enable-query-in-omnibox_flag" setting.

For example, searching for "linux" will not show "https: //www.google.com/search?Q= linux & oq = linux &….", but simply "linux";

For video output using the MediaStream API, a context menu and playback controls have been added.

Google Chrome takes a strong step against misleading advertising and fraudulent add-ons

In this new version of Google Chrome 71 added blocking system for deceptive ad units.

With this new feature If the user finds fraudulent ads on the site, Chrome now blocks all the ads on the problematic site.

Among the solutions to this problem the browser will block the content is overlaid with fictitious close buttons, advertising that stimulates clicks by fraudulent means (for example, decorating blocks in the form of system dialogs, warnings or notifications) and does not correspond to the declared behavior.

Warning output for pages with fraudulent subscriptions was also added.

For example, warnings are displayed for sites that offer to enter a phone number to gain access to an online game, but without warning or sites that connect the user to additional paid subscriptions or cancel funds that do not correspond to those indicated in the page.

Another movement that has been generated in Chrome is against sites that urge the user to install unverified add-ons, now the add-ons can be installed only after switching to the Chrome Web Store directory.

Online mode, which allows you to start installing plugins without changing to the plugin directory, is no longer supported.

Added a crash that prevents sound output using speech synthesis API before active user actions on the page.

In addition to innovations and bug fixes, 43 vulnerabilities were fixed in the new version.

Many of the vulnerabilities identified by automated testing tools AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, Integrity check flow, LibFuzzer, and AFL.

Critical issues that allow you to bypass all levels of browser protection and run code on your system outside of the sandbox have not been identified.

As part of the cash rewards program for detecting vulnerabilities for the current version, Google paid out 34 prizes worth $ 59,000.

How to get Google Chrome 71?

For all those Users of this web browser, they will only have to wait for their browser to show the available update in order to perform it.

While for those who are interested in being able to install this browser on their systems, they can visit lto the official website of the browser where you can find the packages available for installation.


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