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  • Timesheetr adds more secure project access settings

    Timesheetr adds more secure project access settings

    In a recent update, Timesheetr got a new setting that instantly changes all the permissions on projects created inside of Timesheetr. Timesheetr projects, are simply projects you create inside Timesheetr. The only other type of projects are Basecamp projects, where the permissions are handled on Basecamp itself. Timesheetr projects are accessible by all regular Timesheetr…

  • How to Optimize Site Performance for Core Web Vitals

    How to Optimize Site Performance for Core Web Vitals

    There are many factors that affect website rankings, one of which is, site performance. How does your site perform in terms of speed and accessibility? Just this month  Google established a new user experience metric called Core Web Vitals. Core Web Vitals aims to put the most optimized website in terms of performance on top of…

  • Smartster Media 🏆 Rewards Program for Employees and Contractors 2021

    Smartster Media 🏆 Rewards Program for Employees and Contractors 2021

    Smartster Media wants to incentivize its team members to keep their timesheet up to date on a regular basis, to more accurately track the time spent on different tasks. Therefor this Rewards Program was created. Rewards The following activities are rewarded: Item Rewards Maximum Rewards Time spent on the timesheet page 🏆 0.0100 for every…

  • Firefox’s new Site Isolation Security Architecture

    Firefox’s new Site Isolation Security Architecture

    Online there are plenty of untrustworthy websites that could overpass the initial security in your primary browser. Which is why Firefox developed a new Site Isolation Security. With the main purpose of preventing malicious websites from accessing or stealing information from your accounts on other websites.  The process of site Isolation security is separating web…

  • WordPress Proposes Blocking Google’s FLoC

    WordPress Proposes Blocking Google’s FLoC

    In the recent announcement from WordPress, they state that they are treating Google’s new FLoC tracking technology as a security concern and may block it by default on WordPress sites. Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) received a lot of criticism concerning privacy. “FLoC is meant to be a new way to make your browser…

  • Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google’s Invasive Experiment

    Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google’s Invasive Experiment

     Am I FLoCed is one of an effort to uncover the invasive practices of the adtech industry—Google included. It is a new site where you can check if you are being subjected to the latest advertising experiment, FLoC. What is FloC? Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC is Google’s new advertising technology intended to replace…

  • DuckDuckGo Browser and Extension

    DuckDuckGo Browser and Extension

    DuckDuckGo describes itself as “the search engine that doesn’t track you.” Although DDG is better known for its privacy-focused search engine, the company has expanded into making its own Privacy Browser app for Android and IOS. The DDG Privacy Browser has the speed you need, the browsing features you expect (like tabs & bookmarks), and also comes…

  • The Search Engine That Doesn’t Track You

    The Search Engine That Doesn’t Track You

    THERE’S A NEW battleground in the browser wars: user privacy. Just recently, we published an article about Brave browser and how effective its tracker blocking technologies. So here’s another talk of the town privacy-focused search engine that will help you enjoy the internet without having to worry about leaving a digital footprint.  What is DuckDuckGo? DuckDuckGo is a…

  • Mozilla Firefox 85.00 is Here!

    Mozilla Firefox 85.00 is Here!

    The popular open-source web browser Mozilla Firefox finally released version 85.00. With significant updates including the much-awaited major privacy enhancement called network partitioning. Check out the major improvements and what’s been added and changed for the latest Firefox 85.00. What’s new? The Adobe’s popular software Flash Player is no longer supported by Firefox 85. “There is…

  • Update: Let’s Encrypt Extends Support for Android 7 or Older Devices for Three Years

    Update: Let’s Encrypt Extends Support for Android 7 or Older Devices for Three Years

    Back in November, Let’s Encrypt an open certificate authority announced an end to its partnership with Identrust and to “Standing on Our Own Two Feet – Let’s Encrypt”. The supposed part ways will cause compatibility issues with Android 7.1.1 or older to not be able to access HTTPS websites.  In its new announcement, Let’s Encrypt has…

  • Apple and Cloudflare team up to stop your ISP from seeing which websites you visit

    Apple and Cloudflare team up to stop your ISP from seeing which websites you visit

    Apple and Cloudflare team up to develop a new internet protocol called “Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS,” or “ODoH,” which can prevent Internet Service Providers (ISP) from knowing which websites you visit. When visiting a website the request sent can be logged and tells your ISP which websites you visited, down to the hostnames and subdomains. This information…

  • Standing on Our Own Two Feet – Let’s Encrypt

    Standing on Our Own Two Feet – Let’s Encrypt

    Update: Let’s Encrypt Extends Support for Android 7 or Older Devices for Three Years Let’s Encrypt announced its partnership with IdenTrust will come to an end by September 1, 2021. Except for its own root certificate, Let’s Encrypt has been using a cross-signed certificate from IdenTrust. The decision to part ways is dubbed as the company is…