A flagship European Union digital market regulation appears to be shaking up competition in the mobile browser market. It’s been a little over a month since the Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into application and there are early signs it’s having an impact by forcing phone makers to show browser choice screens to users. On … Read more
The Tor browser features: Onion routing | DuckDuckGo integration | Access to websites outside of the clear web Another great choice for improving your privacy on the web is the Tor browser, a non-profit project focused on anonymizing users online. Its proprietary web browser disguises a user’s IP address and activity by relaying it through … Read more
Kerry Wan/ZDNET Chrome is everywhere. According to Statcounter, the Google-owned browser holds a 65% market share, with the closest competition being Safari at 18.57%. That’s a massive difference, and it’s showing no signs of change. Also: Chrome is (obviously) the top browser, but you won’t believe what’s (a distant) second That stranglehold over the market … Read more
The browser is part of a bigger project to keep internet browsing anonymous: Use Tor and you use the Tor Project network, a complex, encrypted relay system managed by the Tor community, making it much harder for anyone else to follow your activities online. As well as this additional layer of anonymity, Tor Browser is … Read more
Mullvad offers apps for every major platform, as well as routers. The applications are all open source, and you can check the code yourself on GitHub. The service has been independently audited as well. Advanced users can download configuration files and use them directly with OpenVPN or Wireguard. In my testing, speeds were very good. … Read more
When it comes to looking something up on the web, most of us default to Googling it—the search engine has become so dominant that it’s now a verb, in the same way that Photoshop is. But using Google for your searches comes with a privacy trade-off. Google’s business is, of course, based on advertising, and … Read more
Google proposed putting restrictions on this API but has relaxed these somewhat in the new version of Manifest V3. It originally planned to allow browser extensions to make 5,000 content-filtering “rules,” but it has now increased this to 30,000 rules. AdGuard, an ad blocker, has tentatively welcomed some of the revised changes. Elsewhere, uBlock Origin, … Read more
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At some point, if you’re a company doing pretty much anything in the year 2023, you have to have an AI strategy. It’s just business. You can make a ChatGPT plug-in. You can do a sidebar. You can bet your entire trillion-dollar company on AI being the future of how everyone does everything. But you … Read more
Microsoft launched it is synthetic intelligence-powered search on Bing six months in the past. In that point, there have been greater than 1 billion chats and 750 million AI-generated pictures produced, Microsoft stated Monday. To rejoice half a 12 months of the AI chatbot and instruments, the corporate is increasing the provision of AI-powered Bing … Read more
To import from different browsers, together with Microsoft Edge, select Bookmarks HTML File or Passwords CSV File from the Import From menu. If the browser you are shifting from can export information in these codecs, you may then decide the appropriate file and import it. For those who’re leaving Safari for one more browser, you … Read more