Cliqz acquires Ghostery
Cliqz, a German company owned by Burda Media and Mozilla, has acquired the popular anti-tracking tool Ghostery and the Ghostery brand.
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LocalCDN Chrome Extension
LocalCDN is an open-source web browser extension for Chrome (and others) that enhances privacy and browsing speed by intercepting requests for common web librar
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How to force Flash updates in Chrome
The following guide walks you through the steps of checking the installed Flash version in Google Chrome, and forcing it to update if an outdated version is use
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Picard 1.4 music tagger is out
MusicBrainz have released Picard 1.
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Researchers develop cross-browser fingerprinting technique
Researchers have developed a cross-browser fingerprinting technique that uses operating system and hardware level features.
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Amazon Chime: AWS Video Conference Service
Amazon Chime is a new communication service by Amazon that supports video conferencing, calls, chat, and the sharing of content.
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Opera Settings: How to Open Them and Speed Up Opera
To open Opera settings, type opera://settings into the address bar and press Enter, press Alt+P on Windows or Linux, or press Cmd+, on a Mac.
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Codec Tweak Tool: Troubleshoot media playback issues on Windows
Codec Tweak Tool is a free portable program for Microsoft Windows devices designed to troubleshoot and correct media playback issues on Windows.
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Gmail Sender Icons for Chrome: better sender identification
Gmail Sender Icons is a simple browser extension for Google Chrome that visualizes the sender's domain and favicon of the domain on Gmail's website.
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Cobbler: simple local password manager
Cobbler is a local password manager for the Windows operating system that stores passwords and other data in encrypted databases.
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How to speed up the Vivaldi web browser
The following guide lists tweaks and suggestions on how to speed up the Vivaldi web browser to reduce lag and improve the browser's performance.
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Windows 10: Group Policy pack Privacy and Telemetry
The Group Policy pack Privacy and Telemetry, short gp-pack PaT, is a collection of 70 policies designed to disable sending data to Microsoft on Windows 10 devic
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Ghacks.net Firefox privacy and security user.js 0.11 is out
The most comprehensive Firefox privacy and security settings collection has been updated to version 0.
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Firefox Focus privacy scandal
Firefox Focus: the privacy browser, is a free mobile browser for iOS devices by Mozilla designed to protect user privacy while browsing the web.
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PeaUtils collection of file management tools
PeaUtils is a collection of file management tools that enables you to run more than a dozen file related tools on your system.
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Maxon Cinebench: benchmark software with comparison
Maxon Cinebench is a free benchmark software for Windows and Mac devices by Maxon, a company best known for the 3D graphics package Cinema 4D.
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Blocking Telemetry in Windows 7 and 8.1
Microsoft pushed patches to devices running Windows 7 and 8.
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VPN Lifeguard: Kill Switch for VPN connections
VPN Lifeguard is a free open-source Windows application (often used for P2P/torrenting) that acts as a, "kill switch" to protect privacy when a VPN connection d
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Metadefender Endpoint: Windows PC security scanner
Opswat Metadefender Endpoint is a free security scanner for computer systems running Microsoft's Windows operating system.
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Tor Project's Ooniprobe app checks if you are censored
The Tor Project released ooniprobe designed to run checks to see if you are being censored for Android and iOS mobile devices.
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Windows KB2952664 and KB2976978 telemetry updates re-released (again)
Here we go again.
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YouTube Go for Android: lite YouTube app by Google
YouTube Go is a new application for Android by Google designed for markets where available bandwidth and reception may be lacking.
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Et tu, AMD? No Ryzen drivers for Windows 7
Microsoft announced back in January of 2016 that the upcoming chip generations of Intel and AMD would only support Windows 10, and not the more widely used Wind
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Windows 10 Cloud hacked to run Win32 programs
That did not take long! Windows 10 Cloud has not been revealed officially yet, but someone managed to hack the operating system already to run legacy Win32 prog
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Windows 10 Build 15031: dynamic lock, overlay window
Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Insider Preview build to the Fast Ring earlier today that brings the build number to version 15031.
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Vivaldi 1.7: screenshots and usability improvements
Vivaldi 1.
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Firewall App Blocker: Download and deny apps access to the internet
Firewall App Blocker (FAB) is a free Windows utility designed to simplify managing the Windows Firewall by allowing users to instantly block or unblock applicat
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Microsoft: February 2017 Non-Security Office Update Release
February 2017 Non-Security Office Update Release.
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BurnAware Free 10.0 ships with new interface
BurnAware Free 10.
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Lightweight Powershell Windows Desktop Background Rotator script
Windows Desktop Background Rotator is a Powershell script for Windows that loads a wallpaper from a pool whenever it is run.
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Vivaldi Tip: Block all keyboard shortcuts
The Vivaldi web browser ships with an interesting option to block all keyboard shortcuts on the active web page.
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Opera 43: better performance, classic link selection
Opera Software has just released Opera 43 to the Stable channel introducing performance improvements and classic Opera's link selection method to the browser.
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Crowdfunding for Firefox EPUBReader add-on
The author of EPUBReader launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign recently to finance the migration of the add-on to WebExtensions.
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How to disable Avast's annoying sounds and voiceovers
The following guide offers instructions on how to turn off sounds and voiceover audio notifications in Avast Free Antivirus for Windows.
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Google Maps on Android gets real-time commute info
Google announced an update to Google Maps on Android yesterday that brings real-time commute information and more to the company's app.
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404 Bookmarks lists all dead Firefox bookmarks
404 Bookmarks is a brand new browser add-on for the Firefox web browser that helps you identify and remove dead bookmarks from the browser.
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KeePassXC: cross-platform KeePass client
KeePassXC is a free cross-platform client based on KeePass that could be useful to users who run devices with different operating systems.
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Kodi 17: cross-platform media center updated
Kodi 17 is the latest version of the popular cross-platform media center software that enables you to play media on all devices that it supports.
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What to do if WiFi says no internet secured?
A "No internet, secured" WiFi message on Windows means your computer is successfully connected to your router, but that router is failing to send internet data
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Keep track of activities and goals with HabitHub for Android
HabitHub Habit & Goal Tracker is an application for Android that helps you keep track of activities, goals and rewards.
