Google appears to be testing a built-in A/B testing toggle inside Performance Max asset groups, according to Search Engine Land’s October 20 report. If you run Performance Max for a high-ticket Shopify store, the catch is the calendar. Google’s help documentation says a test locks the tested asset group and recommends running it at least […]

Rank Math PRO 3.0.123, downloaded from the vendor’s own website on October 15 and 16, carried malware that updating the plugin does not remove, BleepingComputer reported. This one is for the Ecommerce Paradise reader who runs a WordPress blog, a WooCommerce shop or a quote funnel next to a Shopify store. If you pay for […]

Europe’s data protection board says a site’s robots.txt file can weigh against AI companies that scrape it anyway, in draft guidelines open for comment until Oct. 30. If you sell high-ticket products, a file you probably never touched just became something regulators are told to weigh. It decides whether a scraper can claim your product […]

Treasury’s public comment window on its GENIUS Act stablecoin rule closed Monday, October 19, with 123 submissions on the docket, according to The Block. This is a back-office story for a store owner, not a checkout story. The final rule will decide which stablecoins the companies that move your money can handle, and that sets […]

A power failure in Google Cloud’s London region on Oct. 20 disrupted Revolut card payments and transfers for hours, according to BleepingComputer. For readers of Ecommerce Paradise, the point is simple. If your ad cards, supplier payments, payouts and VA payroll all sit with one provider, one bad morning can stall a high-ticket store while […]

Adobe patched a CVSS 10.0 flaw in Magento and Adobe Commerce on October 13 that lets an unauthenticated attacker run code on a store’s server. If you run a high-ticket store on Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source, this is a patch-this-week item, and the patch is not a one-click update. High-ticket orders run in […]

American Express will limit Business Gold’s 4x points on advertising to purchases made directly with six companies starting February 17, 2027, per the card’s terms. For readers of Ecommerce Paradise who run their ad budget through this card, the change decides how many points a month of ad spend earns. Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, GoDaddy […]

Apple’s WebKit team confirmed on October 19 that Safari 27 blocks network access to third-party services that turn email addresses into tracking IDs. If you run a high-ticket store and pay an agency or vendor for programmatic retargeting, connected TV or audience matching, part of that spend may now reach Safari shoppers with no identifier […]