November 1, 2022

The Verge: Why one web pioneer thinks it’s time to reinvent the browser

The Verge: Why one web pioneer thinks it’s time to reinvent the browser. “Darin Fisher has built a lot of web browsers. A lot of web browsers. He was a software engineer at Netscape early in his career, working on Navigator and then helping turn that app into Firefox with Mozilla. Then, he went to Google and spent 16 years building Chrome and ChromeOS into massively successful products. Last year, he left Google for Neeva, where he worked on ways to build a browser around the startup’s search engine. And now, he’s leaving Neeva to join The Browser Company and work on Arc, one of the hottest new browsers on the market.”

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July 14, 2022

New York Times: For Blind Internet Users, the Fix Can Be Worse Than the Flaws

New York Times: For Blind Internet Users, the Fix Can Be Worse Than the Flaws. “[Patrick] Perdue is one of hundreds of people with disabilities who have complained about issues with automated accessibility web services, whose popularity has risen sharply in recent years because of advances in A.I. and new legal pressures on companies to make their websites accessible.”

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July 7, 2022

The Register: Tracking cookies found in more than half of G20 government websites

The Register: Tracking cookies found in more than half of G20 government websites . “A study by IMDEA, a research facility in Madrid, Spain, evaluated more than 118,000 URLs of 5,500 government websites – think .gov, .gov.uk. .gov.au, .gc.ca, etc. – hosted in the twenty largest global economies (the G20) and discovered a surprising tracking cookie problem, even among countries party to Europe’s GDPR and those with their own data privacy regulations.”

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June 29, 2022

9to5 Google: Firefox now automatically removes tracking parameters from URLs to enhance privacy

9to5 Google: Firefox now automatically removes tracking parameters from URLs to enhance privacy. “According to an article from Bleeping Computer, companies like Facebook, Marketo, and HubSpot use custom URL query parameters to track links on clicks. Companies do this in order to provide users with a more personalized ad experience online. Called Query Parameter Stripping, these sites can no longer track what links you click when browsing on Firefox; once you’ve enabled the feature.”

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May 19, 2022

Hongkiat: 10 Best Web Highlighters for Desktop in 2022

Hongkiat: 10 Best Web Highlighters for Desktop in 2022. “Have you used any web highlighters? It helps us improve our productivity by copying and pasting important texts you’ve found online automatically, saving good articles in your directory, and highlighting important sentences on articles so that you can remember them when looking back. In this article, I’ll introduce you to 10 useful web highlighters for the desktop.”

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May 14, 2022

Ars Technica: Some top 100,000 websites collect everything you type—before you hit submit

Ars Technica: Some top 100,000 websites collect everything you type—before you hit submit. “Researchers from KU Leuven, Radboud University, and University of Lausanne crawled and analyzed the top 100,000 websites, looking at scenarios in which a user is visiting a site while in the European Union and visiting a site from the United States. They found that 1,844 websites gathered an EU user’s email address without their consent, and a staggering 2,950 logged a US user’s email in some form. Many of the sites seemingly do not intend to conduct the data-logging but incorporate third-party marketing and analytics services that cause the behavior.”

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April 20, 2022

The Verge: Brave is bypassing Google AMP pages because they’re ‘harmful to users’

The Verge: Brave is bypassing Google AMP pages because they’re ‘harmful to users’. “Brave announced a new feature for its browser on Tuesday: De-AMP, which automatically jumps past any page rendered with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages framework and instead takes users straight to the original website…. Brave framed De-AMP as a privacy feature and didn’t mince words about its stance toward Google’s version of the web.”

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April 15, 2022

Gizmodo: The Hidden Hack for Super-Speedy Web Browsing

Gizmodo: The Hidden Hack for Super-Speedy Web Browsing. “Chances are you spend a lot of time in a web browser every day—so anything you can do to speed up the way you get around the internet is going to make a significant difference to your productivity levels (and give you extra time to do something more exciting). Yes, even on the best web browsers. Here’s one such hack you might not have tried yet: Mouse gestures.”

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April 9, 2022

ZDNet: What’s the most popular web browser in 2022?

ZDNet: What’s the most popular web browser in 2022?. “Historically, it’s been challenging to get hard data on which browsers really were the most popular web browsers. True, many companies claimed to have good numbers, such as NetMarketShare and StatCounter, but their numbers are massaged. The US federal government’s Digital Analytics Program (DAP), however, gives us a running count of the last 90 days of US government website visits. That doesn’t tell us much about global web browser use, but it’s the best information we have about American web browser users today.”

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March 28, 2022

CNET: 6 Browser Extensions to Help You Surf the Internet Privately

CNET: 6 Browser Extensions to Help You Surf the Internet Privately . “According to CISA, updating your web browser, as well as your devices and applications, is a good step to protecting your data and privacy. We regularly recommend improving your overall privacy by trying out a security-focused browser like Brave, or updating your current browser’s security settings to tighten up your control over how much of your data is collected. You can further protect yourself online by using a security-focused browser add-on. Here are six browser extensions to help you stay safe online.”

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March 17, 2022

MakeUseOf: These 4 Chrome Extensions Let You Browse With Your Voice

MakeUseOf: These 4 Chrome Extensions Let You Browse With Your Voice. “Google has a huge range of impressive accessibility functions baked into its Chrome browser by default. But if you’re the type of person who struggles with extended typing and clicking, or just prefers to use their voice, then you might find the browser a little wanting. Luckily, the Chrome Web Store has an incredible slew of extensions you can use to adjust just about any part of your browsing experience.”

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February 27, 2022

MakeUseOf: 5 Wikipedia Apps to Discover Interesting Articles and Browse Wikipedia Better

MakeUseOf: 5 Wikipedia Apps to Discover Interesting Articles and Browse Wikipedia Better. “Wikipedia is one of the greatest free resources on the internet, with almost 6.5 million articles in the English version alone. But too often, we only use the website to search for something, rather than simply browsing it to learn about new things. These apps try to give you ways to browse Wikipedia and discover articles in new ways.”

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January 25, 2022

Hackaday: Hack The Web Without A Browser

New-to-me, from Hackaday: Hack The Web Without A Browser. “It is a classic problem. You want data for use in your program but it is on a webpage. Some websites have an API, of course, but usually, you are on your own. You can load the whole page via HTTP and parse it. Or you can use some tools to ‘scrape’ the site. One interesting way to do this is woob — web outside of browsers. The system uses a series of backends tailored at particular sites.”

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