It is time to opt out of Yahoo Mail email scanning
Yahoo Mail and AOL Mail, which both fly under the Oath banner, a Verizon owned company, scan emails that arrive in user inboxes to improve advertisement targeting. An article published by The […]
Mozilla publishes Firefox Public Data Report
Firefox Public Data Report is a new weekly report by Mozilla that offers current and historic statistics on user metrics, usage behavior, and configurations on mobile and desktop operating systems. Has Firefox […]
CCleaner 5.46 ships with clearer privacy options
CCleaner 5.46 is now available; the new version promises better privacy options, clearer explanation of privacy-related features, and a data fact sheet that highlights what is collected and why. The past couple […]
Opera 57 new installer user interface
Opera Software plans to use a different installer user interface starting with Opera 57 and going forward. The company announced the change on the official desktop team blog where it highlights changes […]
Install a Material Design inspired theme in Firefox
MaterialFox is a user-designed theme for Firefox that turns the Firefox web browser into a material-design inspired browser. Firefox users have two main options when it comes to changing the default theme […]
Use Tags to organize files and folders
Tagstoo is a free cross-platform desktop program for Windows, Linux and Mac devices to manage files and folders using tags. The idea to tag files and folders on desktop systems is not […]
How to select and move multiple Chrome tabs at once
Google Chrome, just like any other modern browser, is a tab-driven web browser that gives its users options to open sites in different tabs in the interface. Users can keep multiple sites […]
YouTube pushing non-skippable ads
YouTube revealed in a new video for content creators recently that it plans to push unskippable video ads on the video hosting site. The video "Want to earn more money from ad […]
Ghacks Deals: Google Cloud Mastery Bundle (90% off)
The Google Cloud Mastery Bundle is an eLearning bundle that is all about acquiring cloud-based skills. The bundle includes courses for Google DialogFlow, TensorFlow, Google Cloud ML Engine for Deep Learning and […]
Chrome experiment hides Search URLs
Google is testing a change in the company's Chrome web browser currently that hides the URL in the address bar when users run searches in the browser. The experimental feature is only […]
The Flash Games Preservation project Flashpoint
Adobe Flash will be retired in 2020 and browser makers such as Google, Mozilla or Microsoft started to phase out Flash support already in the browsers they create. Think of Flash what […]
Screenshots from the Firefox Developer Tools console
Mozilla plans to launch a new screenshot taking feature in Firefox 63 that enables users to capture screenshots using the Developer Tools console. Another screenshot tool and feature? Firefox has quite a […]
Don't F with Paste for Chrome and Firefox
Don't F with Paste is a browser extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox web browsers that unblocks the use of copy and paste on any website you visit. Some companies and […]
Hide the volume on-screen display on Windows 10 devices
If you use a Windows 10 device with hardware volume buttons, a Surface by Microsoft for example or most laptops that run the operating system, you may have noticed that Windows displays […]
Reset Windows Update Agent: a second look
I reviewed Reset Windows Update Agent, a free script for Windows devices, back in 2015. The script provided Windows administrators with options to run select administrative tasks on the system the script […]
Google Maps: increased offline retention
Google Maps supported the downloading of maps to the local device in the past. The feature downloaded the selected region to the local device where it remained accessible for 30 days before […]
Firefox 62: Firefox Monitor system add-on integration
Mozilla plans to integrate a new system add-on called Firefox Monitor in Firefox 62 that Mozilla plans to roll out gradually to the Firefox population. Mozilla ran a Firefox Monitor Shield study […]
Expect an increase in browser privacy and security warnings
Internet users will soon experience an increase in privacy and security warnings displayed by the web browsers that they use to connect to Internet sites. Users of Google Chrome will see an […]