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…
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…
Two weeks after it landed in the Beta channel, Microsoft has released Edge version 100 to Stable, making it available to all users. There are several new features, none major: Lightweight PDF preview. When you open a PDF file from File Explorer or Microsoft Outlook, a lightweight new and Edge-based…
The alpha version of Steam for Chromebooks that Google announced last week is now available on the Chrome OS Dev Channel. As of today, only seven Chromebook models from Acer, Asus, HP, and Lenovo are supported, with Google planning to add more devices in the future. “Because many games have…
We’ve known for quite some time that Google had been working with Valve to bring Steam on Chrome OS, and an alpha version was announced yesterday at the Google for Games Developer Summit (via 9to5Google). Google said that the alpha would be available “soon” on select Chromebooks, but details are…
Google revealed today that a recent initiative to require customers to enable 2-Step Verification (2SV) has been incredibly successful: among the over 150 million customers who were auto-enrolled into 2SV since last year, account compromises fell by 50 percent. “By making all of our products secure by default, we keep…
For the first time in eight years, Google is changing the icon for Chrome, its flagship web browser. The differences, thankfully, are minor. “Some of you might have noticed a new icon in Chrome’s Canary update today,” Chrome designer Elvin Hu tweeted. “Yes! we’re refreshing Chrome’s brand icons for the…
Brave, which has been blocking Google’s FLoC since last April, now says that the new Topics API does nothing to address the problem. Google claims the new Topics API addresses FLoC’s serious privacy issues,” Brave senior director of privacy Peter Snyder writes. “Unfortunately, it does anything but. The Topics API…