Google has announced a change to its advertising policies that will allow advertisers to use digital fingerprinting starting February 16, 2025. Why it is important: digital fingerprinting uses signals, like the IP address, […]

VideoLAN's open-source video player has reached 6 billion downloads. The developers celebrated the milestone by announcing a new feature at CES 2025, AI generated subtitles. Subtitles are useful when you want to […]

Microsoft announced this week that it is going to install the new Outlook application on Windows 10 systems automatically.  Windows users and administrators who do not want the app need to make […]

The Linux Foundation has launched an initiative called the Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers. Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera are members of the group. While the news comes as a surprise, the list […]

EditThisCookie is a specialized extension for Google Chrome that you may use to edit cookie data stored by the browser. I mentioned it back in 2015 here on Ghacks. The extension, with […]

Windows 11 uses the icon cache extensively to display icons of applications and other elements of the operating system. It is designed to speed up the loading and display of icons. Sometimes, […]

Microsoft is displaying yet another ad on Windows 11. This time, a pop-up banner promotes the company's Game Pass subscription for PCs. I'm a fan of Xbox PC Game Pass, it is […]

If you are using Google Chrome, you may have noticed something strange. When you sign-in to a Google service, like Gmail or Google Drive, you get signed-into the browser automatically as well. […]

Fake USB devices continue to be a problem. These devices claim to have higher storage capacities than they actually have. These devices are sold in many different places: from Chinese online shops […]

The KB5048685 Update seems to be causing multiple problems for users on Windows 11 23H2. Microsoft released the cumulative update on December 10. Like most Patch Tuesday updates, this one was meant […]

The latest version of Windows 11, version 24H2, has had its fair share of issues already since its release a few months ago. We covered some of them here, for instance the […]

When PayPal acquired the shopping service and browser extension Honey, many thought that the $4 billion that the company paid was a steep price for the service. Honey has faced its fair […]

Captchas were invented in the early 2000s to tackle an issue on the Internet: bots. Bots were used to quickly snag up auctions on eBay, tickets for a concert or sports event, […]

The U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust trial vs Google just became more interesting. Google has proposed some remedies ahead of a hearing in April 2025. In case you missed it, a federal […]

AdGuard announced AdGuard Mail today. The new product is free at the time of writing and designed to improve email privacy. It is available as a web-based version as well as apps […]

Windows 11, version 24H2 has not been out for long, but its number of issues is already longer than a polonaise at the German carnival. Gamers faced their fair share of issues […]

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Search for all users. Let's take a closer look at how the search engine works. So far, ChatGPT has attracted users who want to generate text, images, code, […]

Wi-Fi is next to Ethernet one of the main ways of connecting a device to the Internet. A PC needs a wireless adapter or chip to support Wi-Fi. The majority of mobile […]

Mozilla has posted its financial report for the year 2023. The organization continues to do well. It had big revenue boost in 2023, but the report may also raise concern. The details: […]

The HDMI Forum plans to unveil HDMI 2.2 officially at a press conference on January 6th, 2025. The organization plans to reveal the new specification of the next-generation of the HDMI standard. […]