Users won't be able to save unlimited pictures and videos on Google Photos from June 1
The tech giant also introduced 'Save to Photos' button to save images from Gmail to Google Photos.
By ET Online and Agencies |
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Users will be able to store up to 15GB every day till June 1.
Starting June 1, Google Photos storage policy will change, and the unlimited, free high-quality storage will end.
The tech company won't allow unlimited storage in Google Photos. While the feature won't be paid, users' high quality images and video will be counted in their Google account storage.
This means all the media that initially got backed up in Google Photos will now be a part of users' 15GB storage that they get with they Google account which includes Gmail and Google Drive. From June 1, if you have purchased additional space or are a Google One member, the storage space for photos and videos will gradually increase.
Users will be able to store up to 15GB every day till June 1. The company said that your existing high-quality photos and videos are exempt from this change.
The company estimates that more than 80 percent of the users should still be able to store roughly three more years of memories in high quality with your free 15GB of storage. As your storage nears 15GB, Google will notify you in the app and follow up by email.
However, Google Photos doesn't save images in its original size. To conserve space, it resizes the original pictures that are larger than 16MP to 16MP. This size is good enough to print a portrait as big as 24 inches x 16 inches.
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Earlier this week, the tech giant said that it was rolling out a new feature to help Gmail users transfer emailed photos from their accounts directly to Google Photos. The feature will be gradually rolled out in the next 15 days, starting Thursday (India time).
With the 'Save to Photos' button, currently available only for JPEG images, will arrive for personal Gmail users, Google Workspace, G Suite Basic, and G Suite Business customers in the next couple of weeks.
Now users can save the attached image sent on Gmail directly to Google Photos with the 'Save to Photos' button. This feature will show next to the 'Add to Drive' button in the attachment field.
According to the company, the new feature frees users from having to download photo attachments from Gmail messages in order to then manually back them up to Google Photos. This feature will be 'on' by default.
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Google Chrome, in all probability, might be the most commonly-used browser, but it has been at the centre of criticism due to controversial changes, security problems and data concerns.
From Chrome 79 accidentally deleting data for Android users in December 2019, Chrome 80’s ‘high level vulnerabilities’ that put data at risk to the controversial deep linking upgrade in February 2020 that allegedly compromised on privacy, Chrome has often left its users worried about their safety and security.
However, Chrome has now put all the privacy and security concerns to rest with its new upgrade. A blog post on Google’s website titled, ‘More intuitive privacy and security controls in Chrome’, breaks down the security updates in detail. Here are some of them:
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Most of us use the incognito mode in Google Chrome for private browsing. The USP of Google’s incognito mode is that it does not save history, information entered by the user in forms or browser cookies. The good folks at Google have now decided to take security and privacy in incognito mode a notch higher.
You can now control whether you wish to allow third-party cookies in incognito mode. Chrome will now block third-party cookies by default in incognito mode. If you wish to allow third-party cookies for specific sites, you can click the ‘eye’ sign on the address bar.
The feature, as per Google’s blog, will be gradually rolled out. For the uninitiated, third-party cookies allow websites to track a user across the web. With Chrome’s new update, you can keep your information secure by blocking these cookies.
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Security attacks such as phishing and malware have become quite common on the internet. To combat the menace, Google Chrome now has a security update that users can opt for. Called ‘Enhanced Safe Browsing’, this security upgrade will allow Chrome to proactively detect phishing attacks, malware and other web based threats.
Chrome will do this by proactively checking if pages and downloads are dangerous by sending information about them to Google Safe Browsing.
Going forward, Google will also add more protections to this upgrade such as tailored warnings for phishing sites, file downloads, cross product alerts and more.
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When we enter a website in the address bar of the browser, it first needs to determine which server is hosting the website. This step is called DNS (Domain Name System) lookup.
Google Chrome’s Secure DNS feature will encrypt this step using ‘DNS-over-HTTPS’. This will not allow the attackers to find out which website you want to visit and they won’t be able to send you phishing webpages.
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Apart from introducing strong security measures to keep attackers at bay, Google has also developed a safety net for its users. With the help of a safety check in Chrome, you can make sure that your data is safe.
For starters, Chrome has come up with a new tool that will tell you if the passwords that you have asked Chrome to remember have been compromised and if so, how to fix it.
Secondly, Chrome will raise a red flag if ‘Safe Browsing’, Google’s technology to warn you when you are about to access a dangerous website, has been turned off.
The safety check tool will also help you determine if you are using the latest version of Google Chrome. It will also let you know if malicious extensions have been installed and how to remove them.
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