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Firefox announced that Firefox 87 introduces a stricter, more privacy-preserving default referrer policy. From now on, Firefox will trim path and query string information from the Referer header by default, preventing sites from accidentally leaking sensitive user data.
Baidu quietly launched another tool: Baidu ZhenZhan, offering site diagnostics including a "Baidu search heat score", browser behavior, site certificate information, site security scanning, and site company information lookups.
Recently it emerged that the domain of the well-known Chinese blog Lu Songsong, lusongsong.com, had its DNS resolution suspended because the site carried content in violation of regulations. After the offending content was removed, the block was lifted and access restored.
Recently a user on the V2EX forum reported that their security software caught the PC version of WeChat scanning browser history, and that browser cookies were involved. They included a screen recording catching it in the act.
The Google Chrome team sent an email to Linux distribution developers: starting March 15, 2021, Chromium derivatives will no longer be able to use Google APIs such as Google Sync. For the sake of user account security, Google is cutting off third-party access to its APIs.
At the end of 2020 CentOS announced it would end support at the end of 2021, which sent shockwaves everywhere. Developers and users alike rejected it — even CentOS's founder started the Rocky Linux project that same month to build the next CentOS. Red Hat immediately adjusted course, publishing a post on its official blog on January 20, 2021.
Today Google officially released Chrome 88. The new version permanently drops support for Adobe Flash Player and FTP. Google also announced new password protection features for Chrome 88.
On January 5, 2021 GitHub's official blog published "Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran". Iranian developers had previously been blocked because of US sanctions.
On December 14, Google services suffered a large-scale global outage. Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Adwords, Google Adsense, Google Pay and others went down and could not be used normally, though most of the search business stayed intact.
CentOS 8 support ends in 2021. CentOS 7, as the long-term support release, will continue to be supported until its own lifecycle ends, and CentOS Stream becomes the focus. At the end of 2021 CentOS 8 stops being maintained, while CentOS 7 stays supported until 2024.
