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Mark Zuckerberg says he didn’t set out to build a global company. But a month shy of Facebook’s 15th birthday, the CEO of the world’s biggest social network has found himself defending the behemoth he created. In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday evening, Zuckerberg set out to explain “The Facts …

A Google plan to improve the Chrome web browser has triggered an explosion of concern that it’ll also cripple extensions designed to block ads, improve privacy and protect against security problems. Google’s proposed approach would torpedo ad blocker uBlock Origin, tracker blocker Ghostery, privacy and password manager Privowny, JavaScript software blocker NoScript and a malware blocker from F-Secure, according to …

Verizon has laid off 7 percent of employees in its digital business as the phone company comes to grips with the hard realities of building a major media and advertising business to compete with Facebook and Google. A spokesman for the company confirmed Wednesday that the company laid off about 800 employees in its Verizon Media Group, formerly branded Oath. …

What if online ads weren’t the distracting, privacy-invading, malware-laced, battery-gobbling mess they’ve become? What if they could even fund worthy websites? That’s what startup Brave hopes to accomplish with a major new phase of its browser business. Brave began its existence three years ago by blocking all ads by default. On Tuesday, it’ll start offering anyone using the developer version …

Hitting pause might give you a break during binge-watching, but it won’t save you from advertising, according to a report. Hulu and AT&T are planning on introducing “pause ads” in 2019, reports Variety. The report cites Hulu VP and head of advertising, Jeremy Helfand, who said, “As binge-viewing happens more and more, it’s natural they are going to want to …

With a new mode called SpeedReader, the Brave browser will use AI technology to strip clutter out of websites so they load more than 20 times faster and trample your privacy a lot less, the startup said. Apple’s Safari, Mozilla’s Firefox, Vivaldi Technologies’ Vivaldi, Microsoft’s Edge and other browsers have reader modes designed to show simplified versions of many websites, …

Comcast will pay $700,000 in refunds and cancel debts for more than 20,000 customers in Massachusetts as part of a settlement, following allegations that the company used misleading ads about long-term cable contracts, the state attorney general said Tuesday.   The settlement revolves around allegations that Comcast didn’t disclose the monthly cost and terms of its long-term cable contracts. This …

The criticisms started piling up as soon as Flickr said it would end its free terabyte of photo storage and delete all but a member’s 1,000 most recent photos unless the member upgraded to a $50 annual pro subscription. “Internet say goodbye” to “11,000 photos that were hosted on #flickr,” said one tweet. “I’m sad to lose all the comments …

Microsoft has made attempts to be more transparent with its privacy settings and, while it may have simplified some of the language of its policies, there is still work to be done. Here are five privacy-related settings you can change for a less invasive and more secure Windows 10 experience. Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft CEO on using tech for …

Facebook has apologized after a British woman who lost her child continued to see baby product ads after changing her advertising preference on the site. Anna England-Kerr found that her feed “was filled with ads for baby things” despite using the social media site to share the news that her daughter had been stillborn and changing her settings to avoid …