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If you're using Firefox, it should update automatically to version 57. But chances are you're not a Firefox user. The open-source browser's popularity has been dwindling ever since Google Chrome's launch in 2008. Mozilla released Version 57 today, and the technology and
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After Firefox's recent improvements [https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/14/15802102/firefox-54-update-faster-less-memory] - namely the introduction of multi-threading allowing the use of multiple processes, even though their number is currently limited to 4 - it is no surprise to see the Mozilla Foundation is trying to market
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Browser extensions like Adblock Plus [https://adblockplus.org/], Ghostery [https://www.ghostery.com/en/our-solutions/ghostery-add-on/] and Disconnect [https://disconnect.me/disconnect] can help you block online ads and some forms of online tracking. They all share a flaw: these add-ons rely on predefined lists [https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/
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> A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn. Update: After this article was published, YouPorn contacted us to say it had removed AddThis technology from its website, saying that the website was "
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Opera Max [http://www.opera.com/mobile/max] is a data-saving app for Android which compresses photos and videos in almost all your apps, shortening loading times, and making your data plan last up to 50% longer. But until now, Opera Max didn't compress [http://www.opera.com/
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Mozilla Firefox, the third most used web browser according to StatCounter [http://gs.statcounter.com/], now blocks Adobe Flash by default, because of all its vulnerabilities and zero-days exploits. Among those exploits, you'll find the ones developed by the hacked Italian company Hacking Team [http://arstechnica.com/security/
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Anonymity is soon becoming extinct with the digital age. With social plugins and log activities, it has become nearly impossible to protect one’s privacy and one’s identity. However, the bright side is that the progress in the capability of internet usage is being made in both directions. So