Google Chrome Has Become Surveillance Software. It’s time to switch. You open your browser to look at the web. Do you know who is looking back at you? Over a recent week of web surfing, I peered under the hood of Google Chrome and found it brought along a few Read more…
300,000 Android Devices Hacked Using Chrome Browser Vulnerability A vulnerability in Chrome for Android is being actively exploited and it allows hackers to quietly download banking trojan apps (.apk) onto a victim’s’ device without their confirmation. You might have encountered a pop-up advertisement that appears out of nowhere and surprise Read more…
How to Tell If Someone Is Tracking Your Emails Not all emails are what they seem. Many messages come with embedded code designed to tell the sender when (and even where) you open them up. It’s a trick often used by marketing companies to work out if you’re actually paying Read more…
Make the Internet Great Again… Delete Trump WITH THE TRUMP FILTER GOOGLE CHROME EXTENSION Trump Filter will remove Donald Trump from “your” Internet anyway. Delete Donald Trump from the Internet. Install the Chrome extension Browse the Internet you love Adjust filter settings on the fly Make America great again Filter Trump Completely Read more…
Google’s virtual reality field trips are available to everyone Have you been slightly envious of kids going on Google’s virtual reality field trips? Don’t be. As part of a broader educational push, Google is making the necessary Expeditions app available to everyone. So long as you have an Android device Read more…
Chrome Bug Makes It Easy to Download Movies For the past decade, Hollywood’s battle against online pirates has been mainly been focused on leaked DVD screeners and illegal streaming sites. Now a pair of security researchers say they’ve discovered a vulnerability in the Google Chrome browser that allows people to Read more…
Passlok Simplifies Email Encryption So Anyone Can Use It Web/Chrome/Android/iOS: We’ve shown you how to encrypt your email with PGP, but it can be daunting to get started with. Passlok is a webapp, mobile app, and Chrome app that makes the process easy, and there’s a Chrome extension that Read more…
Google Chrome will disable flash by default beginning soon. Google will be taking another step towards an HTML5-only Web later this year, as the systematic deprecation and removal of Flash continues. In a plan outlined last week, Flash will be disabled by default in the fourth quarter of this year. Embedded Read more…
Google Chrome is my browser of choice, but it does consume a lot of system RAM. Also, there are times when it seems to start feeling a bit sluggish. Fortunately, these problems are easy to fix. Here are some tips to help you make Google Chrome fast again, and to reduce Read more…