Google Inc.

Markus Heintz

Andrew Swerdlow

Dominic Pascal Battré

Patrick Louis Maurice Nepper

Manuel Christian Clement

Roma Rajni Shah

Jennifer Shien-Ming Chen

Rachel Ilan Simpson

Wieland Holfelder

Pamela Lori Greene

Sergiu Iordache

Hagen Fritsch

Bernhard K Bauer

Juin-Kai Chou

Content packs are provided for identifying a plurality of authorized web-based resources, wherein a web browser is configured to prevent access to web-based resources not identified by content packs installed in the web browser. Accordingly one or more of content packs are selected and installed in the web browser, and one or more featured resources are identified from a plurality of authorized web-based resources provided by the installed content packs. An account access page provided by the web browser is automatically configured with one or more access links corresponding to the one or more featured resources, with each featured resource providing a web-based entry point to one or more web-based resources made available by the installed one or more content packs.

Safe web browsing using content packs with featured entry points

A system and machine-implemented method for detecting and processing invisible elements within a web page. A web page is accessed to detect one or more elements in the web page. One or more criteria for identifying web page elements, which are invisible when displayed, are obtained. The one or more criteria are applied to the one or more elements. Based on the applied criteria, a determination is made that one of the one or more elements is invisible. A notification of the invisible element is provided for display.

Detecting and processing invisible elements within a web page

A system and machine-implemented method for ranking cookies. A plurality of cookies associated with accessing web content is identified. For each cookie of the identified plurality of cookies, one or more attributes of the cookie are determined, and a weight is assigned to the cookie based on the determined one or more attributes of the cookie. The plurality of cookies are ranked relative to each other based on the their respective assigned weights.

Ranking plural cookies

A system and machine-implemented method for enabling cookies for a website. One or more domains are identified, each of which serve at least one cookie in association with user access to a website. For each of the one or more domains, a determination is made whether the domain serves the at least one cookie within a first-party context in which the domain hosts the website, or within a third-party context in which the domain does not host the website. A graphical representation of the one or more domains is provided based on the determination for each of the one or more domains. The graphical representation differentiates between the first-party context or the third-party context. An interface set for enabling or disabling the serving of the at least one cookie for each of the one or more domains is provided, in association with the graphical representation.

Enabling cookies for a website

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Munich, Germany

Markus Heintz