DuckDuckGo Privacy

The DuckDuckGo mobile apps may leek some of your browsing data to Microsoft For several years a lot of people have used DuckDuckGo search because of its privacy. As it turns out with its browser apps for iOS and Android DuckDuckGo is sending your browser data to Microsoft. Because the DuckDuckGo app uses Bing search it…

It’s A Brave New World

Brave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser. The browser blocks ads and website trackers, and provides a way for users to send cryptocurrency contributions in the form of Basic Attention Tokens to websites and content creators. As of 2019, Brave has been released…

Brave, Much More Than A Browser

Brave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software Inc. based on the Chromium web browser. The browser blocks ads and website trackers. In a future version of the browser, the company has proposed adopting a pay-to-surf business model. As of 2018, Brave supports Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. The current…

January Tips

This is the first post of a series of items I would like to share but do not think they worthy of an entire post. How to clear all those old emails out of Gmail Brave is a secure browser How to create a Gmail alias

Windows Moving To Chromium

It is the word on the street that Microsoft will drop the Edge web browser on “Windows” instead opting for a browser based on Chromium, the open-source version of Chrome. This may never come to pass but it would be an excellent change. Maybe this could be my default browser.

It’s time to get rid of Flash!

Flash is a web-browser plugin that enables things to appear to move on webpages. Flash has been great despite the numerous exploits and security breaches but now it’s time to get rid of it. HTML5 has displaced the need for Flash and only poor sights use it. Lets uninstall Flash or turn it off. On a…

Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or “chrome”, of web browsers….