Google is not going to stop spying on us. Knowing what we are interested in can sell ads better, and that is the main source of income for the company that has been protected for a long time under the umbrella of Alphabet. It has long been looking for something to replace cookies, and taking advantage of the launch of Chrome 114 will try again. it will not be with flock, nor with what he imagined later, Topics, but with something that in its native language translates as "french fries."
Not that it has anything to do with it, or at least I don't know. Is that Chrome 114 has installed by default CHIPS, which are the acronyms for Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State. Basically, it is a system in which cookies have their own section in a high-level context. It is the latest effort by Google to end cookies, since on the one hand they are a nuisance where they are obliged to inform us of their use and they can also collect all kinds of activity. Still, almost everything they propose is even worse for our privacy.
Chrome 114 arrives with CHIPS installed by default
In the News list We also find activated by default the API Popovers to make popovers easier to implement, various improvements to WebAssembly, improvements to balancing CSS headers, and background-blur for the native Background Blur API for camera backgrounds as a source test. Little more to add.
As in every release, they have been fixed at least eight high-priority security flaws, and I say "at least" because these are the bugs that have been fixed by the community and for which they have received rewards of up to $15000. In she is ready we also found four medium priority vulnerabilities and one low priority.
Chrome 114 was released on Tuesday, May 30, so It is now available at their official website for all supported systems.