Ondrej Holzman Google is going to fight autoplay videos even more in the next versions of its popular Chrome browser. They will not start playing again until you open the corresponding tab. So there will be no more unexpected playback in the background. Starting in September, Chrome will also block most Flash ads.
About changing access to autoplay videos informed on Google+ developer François Beaufort, saying that while Chrome will always load a video as of now, it won't start playing until you're looking at it. The result will be battery saving, but above all it will ensure that you will no longer be surprised where something started playing in the background.
From September 1, Google is preparing block most flash ads for better performance. Ads that run on the AdWords platform will be automatically converted to HTML5 to continue to appear in Chrome, and Google recommends everyone else take the same step – converting from Flash to HTML5.
This is certainly positive news for users, however, Google has not yet decided to take a bolder step, which would be the complete removal of Flash in Chrome, following the example of iOS or Android.
Advertisements are a major source of revenue for Google, so it's not too surprising that the other activity it's been developing recently. Google engineers have started sending out code to developers that they can use to bypass the latest security measures that Apple is planning in iOS 9.
In iOS 9, which should be released to the public in a few weeks, a new security element App Transport Security (ATS) appeared, which requires the use of HTTPS encryption after all incoming content to the iPhone. This condition then ensures that none of the third parties can track what people are doing on their devices.
However, not all current advertising solutions use HTTPS, so in order for these ads to be displayed in iOS 9, Google sends out the mentioned code. This is nothing illegal, but certainly not something that Apple should be happy about. After all, Google is not bypassing security features in a similar way for the first time - in 2012 he had to pay 22,5 million dollars for not following the security settings in Safari.
On the one hand, Google is behaving and trying to look like a "good uncle of the people", while everything revolves around business and advertising. Chrome will modify it so that its ads work as much and as efficiently as possible ... and the breach of the security measure in iOS 9 only confirms this.
As soon as the iPhone 6s / 7 is introduced, I will not hesitate for a minute, Android will become a thing of the past and I will delete the entire Google account, including the so much "popular" email. It's just marketing anyway - e-mail, maps and other services from Apple are at least on the same level.
By the way, I've had 15 smartphones in the last 26 years, but the iPhone 6 was the best - in EVERY way. However, I, the fool, came across the magic marketing from Samsung and today I suffer terribly with the ballast called Galaxy S6.
Would the maps be on the same level? Not by chance. And email? I have gmail so I don't know what spam is. I loved Google Docs. Someone suffers with the S6 and someone is extremely satisfied with the Note 3. It's probably about priorities. Fortunately, we can choose.
Hey, have you ever owned an iPhone? I had all models of Galaxy S (1-6), Xperia Z3, HTC One, LG G2, Galaxy Note 4 ... and I also praised how happy I am, how Android has improved and how amazing everything works. But one day I bought an iPhone 6 and then got fooled by the advertising and went back to Android (Galaxy S6).
If I didn't have that iPhone, maybe I'm happy and don't worry about anything. But in comparison, I've never had anything as amazing, fast, reliable and fantastic as the iPhone - and I'd love to go back to Apple, buy an iPhone 6s / 7 and stay with this platform for as long as possible.
As for spam, I don't have problems with iCloud, which I've been carefully testing and comparing since June. The recipe against spam is simple = just avoid Czech services and dangerous forms. The biggest hell was the e-mail for the list or advertisements on hyperadvertisement, etc.
And now imagine that I asked the same thing as you, and in the end I was glad that I got rid of the apple and I hope that I will never have to return to that platform. Today I am satisfied with Windows phone. Of course, it has much less applications, etc. But for work (rear entertainment and similar things, including playing music). And in that it is unrivaled.
Radka?
The disadvantage of gmail is that Google can unilaterally cancel your mailbox at any time. Such cases are known. So it is not suitable for work matters at all. This is generally true of all freemail services. When you run your own domain, you can have more control.
Well, I don't know, you could easily have more than 50 smartphones, but in the last 15 years? The first commercially available smartphone in the Czech Republic and one of the first in the world was the T-Mobile MDA, which was also sold branded by other operators. I bought it in 2002 or 2003. So 15 years ago it was hard to have a smartphone. Tos could have had a Compaq iPaq or some handheld. The first Ericssons like the R380m cannot really be considered smartphones, and neither can Nokia. Nokia started making real smartphones long after the competition. Previously, it produced so-called "communicators", flip phones with hw keyboards with wap and email.
Google has unrivaled satellite photo data for maps, otherwise I would also like to get rid of Google.