• HOT NEWS

    Tuesday, 30 July 2019

    Chrome 76 is out, making it easy to get past paywalls


    A few weeks ago, we reported Chrome 76 would make it harder to run Flash – because Flash just won’t die – as well as potentially making it much easier to bypass article paywalls. That update is now available. Basically, if you come across a paywall, you can visit the page in incognito mode. That’s it. I can’t imagine affected publishers will be too happy about the change. Truth be told, that’s kind of how incognito mode was always supposed to work – and how it used to. It blocks a site’s ability to read or write cookies on your devices,…

    This story continues at The Next Web

    from The Next Web https://ift.tt/2LNInnm