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TECHNOLOGY Saturday 3 June 2017
Google’s Chrome browser to block some ads starting next year

TALI ARBEL
AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Web-
sites that run annoying
ads such as pop-ups may
find all ads blocked by
Google’s Chrome browser
starting next year. The dig-
ital-ad giant’s announce-
ment comes as hundreds
of millions of internet users
have already installed ad
blockers on their desktop
computers and phones
to combat ads that track
them and make browsing
sites difficult. These block-
ers threaten websites that
rely on digital ads for rev-
enue. Google’s version will
allow ads as long as web-
sites follow industry-creat-
ed guidelines and minimize
certain types of ads that
consumers really hate. That
includes pop-up ads, huge
ads that don’t go away
when visitors scroll down a
page and video ads that
start playing automatically
with the sound on.
Google says the feature This Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, shows the Chrome logo displayed at a Google event, in New York.
will be turned on by de- Associated Press
fault, and users can turn it
off. It’ll work on both the portionately responsible for experience better, encour- com, for example, won’t percent cut of those pay-
desktop and mobile ver- annoying user experienc- aging people to visit sites let you read stories without ments.
sions of Chrome. es,” Google spokeswoman and click on links. That, in disabling your ad blocker To protect its ad business,
Google says that even ads Suzanne Blackburn said. turn, benefits Google. or logging in with Face- Google has tried to im-
it sells will be blocked on “I’m sure there are some The company is also start- book or Google accounts, prove user experiences in
websites that don’t get rid publishers who will get ing a program that could so the site can track you. other ways. It launched a
of annoying types of ads. hurt,” said Brian Wieser, an help publishers deal with us- Google would work with way for websites to load
But there might not be vast ad analyst with Pivotal Re- ers who have downloaded websites to set up mes- faster on phones. And it
changes online triggered search Group. But in the popular ad blockers. Some sages telling users to dis- used its sway as the domi-
by the popular browser’s long term, he says, crack- individual websites have able their blockers for the nant search engine to push
efforts. It’s a “small number ing down on irritating ads come up with their own site or pay for a version of companies to make their
of websites that are dispro- should make the internet countermeasures. Forbes. it with no ads. It’ll take a 10 sites mobile-friendly. q

Hackers break into centralized

password manager OneLogin

NEW YORK (AP) — Hack- Password managers help same ones at multiple sites.
ers have gained access to people keep track of pass- In 2015, rival LastPass said
OneLogin, an online pass- words for a growing array hackers obtained some
word manager that offers of websites and services user information — al-
a single sign-on to multiple that require one. Instead though not actual pass-
websites and services. of having to remember words. It advised all users to
OneLogin said in a blog complex passwords for change their LastPass mas-
post that it couldn’t rule out each one, people can just ter password.
the possibility that hack- remember a master pass- While LastPass offers its ser-
ers got keys to reading word. The password ser- vices to both individuals
encrypted data, such as vice then unlocks other ac- and businesses, OneLogin
stored passwords. counts as needed. focuses on corporate cus-
Published reports, howev- Some security experts say tomers and lets employees
er, say OneLogin informed that despite the risks of of those companies access
customers that the hackers breaches with password a range of services from
indeed got that capability. managers, using one to Google, Microsoft, Ama-
OneLogin didn’t immedi- keep track of multiple com- zon and others. OneLogin’s In this Feb. 27, 2013, file photo, hands type on a computer key-
ately respond to a request plex passwords is far better customers include Pinterest board in Los Angeles. Associated Press
for comment. than repeatedly using the and Conde Nast.q