Geoffrey A. Fowler adaptierte für seine Kolumne der Washington Post die Recherche von Ars Technica. Die Quintessenz: Installiert keine Desktop-Browser-Erweiterungen! Man könnte viele Lehren aus dem Beitrag über (kostenlose) „Browser extensions” und ihrem Umgang mit Nutzerdaten ziehen1, aber ein zentraler Aspekt bleibt das Geschäftsmodell. Wann habt ihr das letzte Mal für eine Browser-Erweiterung tatsächlich mit…

You can already use your Google Account to access simple on/off controls for Location History and Web & App Activity, and if you choose—to delete all or part of that data manually. In addition to these options, we’re announcing auto-delete controls that make it even easier to manage your data. „Introducing auto-delete controls for your…

ERIC: (My son) is 14, right? So ‚Truth or Dare‘ was kind of age appropriate. It was free for the first month, maybe, or week. And then it started to pop up like, do you want to buy the thing? And he’s like, no. And then it would say, right away, would you want to…

You probably ended up here because you followed a link from the App Review Times site. As you will have read, unfortunately the site is no longer tracking crowdsourced data on how long it takes for an app to be reviewed. If you’re still looking for the answer to this question, it takes about a…

Instead of framing screenshots using just these (marketing product) images, I wanted to create mockups using different product images that are more distinctive and, in some cases, three-dimensional. The result is Mocktail, a shortcut that creates framed iOS screenshots using various device images I’ve sourced from Apple’s website (e.g., product landing pages or the online…

The malware masquerading as an ad-serving platform, dubbed SimBad by researchers at security firm Check Point, infected more than 200 apps which, likely unbeknownst to the app developer, would open a backdoor to install additional malware as a way to outsmart Google’s app store scanning. Once installed, the downloaded malware also removes the app icon…

Marketers must adjust to the new reality in which certain audience data is now closed to them. “The fundamental challenge facing marketers with this latest release is visibility into how their digital marketing is performing, said Ryan Storrar, svp and head of media activation for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Essence. “ITP 2.1 is…

Today, Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Apple’s first augmented reality product will go into mass production as soon as the fourth quarter of this year, but hedges the timeframe slightly and says it will be mass-produced by the second quarter of 2020 at the latest. Kuo says that Apple’s first-generation of AR glasses will be heavily…