Category: News
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine”
[Upgrade issues? Check the downgrade plugin post] Here it is! WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine” is finally released. The 39th version of WordPress is named after the jazz musician Billy Eckstine. You can download the latest version of WordPress or update in your dashboard. With the new WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine”, your site gets new power as it is packed with…
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Google Resumes Its Attempt to Hides Full Addresses on Chrome 85
Over the years Google has tried to hide full URLs in Chrome’s address bar, despite the public backlash that came after every attempt, Google is pressing on with new plans to hide all parts of web addresses except the domain name. To test this, you have to download and install the Canary channel from the official Google website, and…