We plan to prevent downloads initiated from ad frames that lack a user gesture ('drive-by downloads'). Removal is expected in Chrome 76.
Motivation
Downloads don't make sense with ads. It happens very rarely in practice and is also difficult to reproduce, which implies that a very small amount of ads are doing automatic downloads. Blocking downloads in ad frames without user gestures will make the web more secure. Apart from security concerns, it would be a more pleasant user experience for a click to trigger a download on the same page, compared with downloads started automatically when landing at a new page, or started non-spontaneously after the click.
Documentation
Status in Chromium
In development (tracking bug)
Consensus & Standardization
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Owner
Search tags
download, ad,Last updated on 2021-01-13
Comments
Ads are identified by Chromium's AdTagging infrastructure: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/docs/ad_tagging.md