In April 2019, ZDNet reported about a proposal Google had made to other browser makers in an attempt to get everyone on board. The plan, at the time, was that browsers block file downloads that take ...

As HTTPS has become more common across the web, Google Chrome is preparing to launch a security option that will block “insecure” downloads through HTTP. While it used to be the case that only privacy ...

Google developers plan to add a feature to Chrome that will prevent advertising slots on a website from triggering automatic file downloads in users browsers. "We plan to prevent downloads initiated ...

Google is moving forward with its plan to block mixed content downloads from web sites to protect users from man-in-the-middle attacks. In April 2019, we reported that Google was looking into blocking ...