Page 27 - Block Origin News Today

Here are some tips and tricks to start improving online privacy There are many ways to improve your privacy -- it can be daunting to start, be these tips can help Online tracking has become more rampant and pervasive in the last few years. Thanks to the ongoing pandemic, many people spend significantly more time online, whether because of remote work or school, or just because there’s not much else to do while in self-isolation. For many, the extra time online and, by extensi...

How to protect your privacy while signing up for a COVID-19 vaccine online Violet Blue © Provided by Popular Science How to protect your privacy while signing up for a COVID-19 vaccine online Click here to see all of PopSci’s COVID-19 coverage. With vaccination availability rapidly expanding to all Americans, the last thing anyone needs is a reason to distrust our states’ registration processes. Unfortunately, recent data shows that some states take the privacy and securi...

Impressively dumb. Congratulations. It was down to kool-aid drinkers and next of kin at the trump White House Too inconsequential to be sued This blog goes to 11… Whoever he was, that guy was nuts. No one could have predicted… Yes we did. How do you get liars to care about the truth? Fuck these fucking interesting times. Shelter in place is one thing. Shelter in pants is quite another. Good luck with your asparagus. If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true! Saul Alinsky is my co-pilo...

I cant give you any specific examples, but as a Firefox user, I can tell you that many forms, especially e-commerce checkouts forms, are slightly broken in Firefox. They are often broken enough that you must switch to Chrome to submit a payment. This really surprises me. Ive used Firefox exclusively for years and have never not been able to complete an action because of it (unless it was my own fault - disabling required third party scripts, etc). Why cant yo...

A privacy and GDPR-friendly approach to producing basic and complex site analytics, and one which is more accurate in an age when adblockers reign supreme.

2B+ Android users deserve access to a safer and open Internet. rethinkdns is a private, secure, and fast DNS resolver with custom rules, blocklists, and analytics that lets you block websites temporarily with time-based rules, or permanently through 100+ pre-defined blacklists; analyse DNS requests in real-time, read through aggregated reports. rethinkdns is highly-available with servers in over 200+ locations across the globe. rethinkdns helps evade Internet cens...

Mozilla Firefox 85 to Allow Easy Installation of Supported Extensions for Android Users Firefox 85 users on Android will be able to install supported recommended extensions directly from the AMO page. By Tanishka Sodhi | Updated: 21 January 2021 17:59 IST Firefox 85 will also include updates that will allow disabling of homepages and tab overrides Highlights Firefox 85 will release on January 25 Mozilla hoped the update will provide a smoother installation exper...

Manifest v3 plus JavaScript timer throttling, vuln fixes, FTP killed off, etc Share Copy Google on Tuesday announced the stable channel release of Chrome 88, which includes support for an extension platform revision known as Manifest v3. Manifest v3 was announced in October, 2018, as part of a broad effort to overhaul the security of various Google products and services. The term refers to the manifest.json file, one of several files in a Chrome extension, through which the developer d...

These 6 browser extensions will protect your privacy online The internet is not a private place. Ads try to learn as much about you to sell your information to the highest bidder. Emails know when you open them and which links you click. And some of the biggest internet snoops, like Facebook and Amazon, follow you from site to site as you browse the web. But it doesn’t have to be like that. We’ve tried and tested six browser extensions that will immediately improve your privacy online by bl...

Here comes the Google Chrome change that worries ad blocker creators Google says its addressed concerns some Chrome extension developers had with its Manifest v3 technology. Listen - 04:08 Manifest v3 will arrive with Chrome 88 in mid-January,    Stephen Shankland/CNET With the next version of Chrome, Google is moving ahead with a plan to improve privacy and security by reining in some abilities of ex...