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The Brave web browser now has over 30 million monthly active users and the firm is introducing a new feature, called Playlist, on iOS.
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Vivaldi has released new versions of its desktop and Android web browsers. Both include a new feature called Cookie Crumbler.
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Brave’s doing it. Vivaldi’s doing. Mozilla’s doing it. Even DuckDuckGo is doing it. But where does Microsoft land on FLoC?
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Not to be outdone by DuckDuckGo and Brave, alternative browser maker Vivaldi has announced that it, too, will block Google FLoC user tracking.
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Brave announced today that it is working to disable Google’s new Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) tracking method.
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DuckDuckGo announced yesterday that it has updated its web browser extension to block Google’s new FLoC tracking method in Chrome.
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A company whose software has been widely used to administer law school entrance exams during the coronavirus pandemic has agreed to an independent audit of the software after a U.S. senator raised cybersecurity concerns about the product. Alabama-based ProctorU’s web-browser extension software has allowed people across the U.S. to take the LSAT exam from home during the pandemic. But Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., worried that that same accessibility, if left unsecured, could give cybercriminals a foothold onto test-takers’ devices. And so, after inquiries from Wyden, ProctorU has hired outside security experts to review its software and the tool it uses for remote troubleshooting, according to the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC), which administers the LSAT. More than 145,000 LSAT exams were administered online from May 2020 to February 2021, and ProctorU appears to be the main contractor for doing so. It’s another case of privacy and security risks emerging in […]
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Opera today announced the availability of the first M1-native version of its flagship browser, and it’s claiming that it’s two times faster than the previous version.
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Upstart search engine maker DuckDuckGo today is claiming that the tracking protection functionality built-in to most web browsers doesn’t actually work.
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Microsoft and Google announced today that they are partnering to identify and fix the top incompatibility issues on the web.
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