Microsoft is making it easier to switch between different accounts when using Microsoft 365 apps on the web. Starting this month, the company has started rolling out seamless account switching across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other Microsoft 365 web apps. Until now, users of Microsoft’s web apps who wanted…
It’s not just Brave: DuckDuckGo announced today that it too is blocking Google AMP in its mobile apps and browser extensions. “AMP technology is bad for privacy because it enables Google to track users even more (which is already a ton),” a DuckDuckGo representative told me. “Google also uses AMP…
DuckDuckGo announced this morning that its privacy-protecting web browser is now available on the Mac in beta. A version for Windows is coming soon. “Privacy isn’t something you only need in certain situations or in partial amounts, and it’s a myth that you can’t have the same Internet you like…
Microsoft Edge’s Sleeping Tabs feature, which saves resources by putting inactive tabs to sleep is now more efficient than ever, the company said today. Microsoft Edge 100, the latest version of the browser that was released last week added a new condition for putting tabs to sleep. “Beginning in Microsoft…
Twitter has quietly changed the way tweets that have been embedded on a web page look once they have been deleted by the author. Previously, deleted tweets still appeared on external websites as text in a blockquote, but Twitter changed that to make these deleted tweets appear as a blank…
The latest version of the Vivaldi web browser adds a Reading List to the sidebar and offers blocked tracker and advertising statistics. “Exactly 6 years ago, we launched the first version of Vivaldi,” co-founder and CEO Jon von Tetzchner writes. “We started out building a browser that will adapt to…
Google is working on a new Privacy Guide to help Chrome users understand the browser’s privacy settings. The new step-by-step guide will allow Chrome users to review key privacy and security settings in just a couple of clicks, and it follows Google’s previous efforts to simplify Chrome’s settings. “When you…
Microsoft Edge has now beaten Safari as the second most popular desktop web browser, according to Statcounter. In March, Microsoft Edge had 9.65% desktop marker share, up from 9.61% in February, while Apple’s Safari went from 9.77% to 9.56% in the same time frame. Obviously, Microsoft Edge was poised to…
Brave today released version 1.37 of its desktop web browser, adding a new sidebar, custom new tab backgrounds, and more. “The Brave browser fundamentally shifts how users interact online, combining privacy-by-default with web3 integration and a native crypto wallet,” the announcement post explains. “Today’s desktop browser update (v1.37) carries that…
Image credit: Håkan Dahlström The European Union could soon force Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft to change their commercial practices in a pretty big way. Yesterday, EU Parliament and Council negotiators reached a consensus on the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a new set of rules aiming to limit the power…