Getty Images reader comments 61 with 44 posters participating, including story author Share this story Brave Software, maker of the Brave Web browser, is introducing a news reader that’s designed to protect user privacy by preventing parties—both internal and third party—from tracking the sites, articles, and story topics people view. Brave Today, as the service… Read More: Brave browser-maker launches privacy-friendly news reader »
reader comments 39 with 30 posters participating Share this story For years, Google and Mozilla have battled to keep abusive or outright malicious browser extensions from infiltrating their official repositories. Now, Microsoft is taking up the fight. Over the past several days, people in website forums have complained of the Google searches being redirected to… Read More: Abusive add-ons aren’t just a Chrome and Firefox problem. Now… »
reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating Share this story Anyone who remembers Do Not Track—the initiative that was supposed to allow browser users to reclaim their privacy on the Web—knows it was a failure. Not only did websites ignore it, using it arguably made people less private because it made them stick out. Now,… Read More: Now you can enforce your privacy rights with a single… »
Enlarge / Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Getty Images reader comments 67 with 50 posters participating Share this story A US senator is calling on the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity arm to assess the threat posed by browser extensions made in countries known to conduct espionage against the US. “I am… Read More: Senator asks DHS if foreign-controlled browser extensions threaten the US »