For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Brave, a privacy-focused browser, is adding a videoconferencing feature called Brave Together to compete with services like Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. Testing of the new feature has begun during a hot time for video chat as …
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Google Chrome has begun locking down an important type of communication that can leak private information to internet service providers or others who can snoop your web browser’s network activity. Chrome 83, released Tuesday, incorporates a new technology called DNS over HTTPS. Google, Mozilla and other allies have been trying to secure your connections to websites with the HTTPS technology, …
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Vivaldi now has built-in options for blocking online trackers and ads, a change of heart for a web browser-maker whose founder had hoped regulators would step in to protect privacy. The new features, designed to improve performance, too, are set to arrive Wednesday with the release of Vivaldi 3.0. The development of a version of Vivaldi for Android phones, the …
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Getting a 404 “page not found” error message is one of the most frustrating experiences of browsing the internet. You find a site through search or a link on a website and when you get there it’s gone. In a new update, the Brave Browser has teamed up with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to help make such an annoyance …
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Seeing ads and then being tracked online has become the new normal when it comes to browsing the internet. A new service aims to shake up this web-surfing model, but not for free. Scroll launched on Tuesday and touts web browsing that’s “twice as fast” with no ads and “80% fewer trackers.” The service costs $4.99 a month and has …
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A long period of beta incubation has come to an end with the release of Brave 1.0, the privacy-focused speed demon of a browser that’s been turning heads with its cavalier approach to ad-blocking and its promises of cryptocurrency payouts. The open source brainchild of Javascript creator and Mozilla project co-founder Brendan Eich, Brave now touts more than 8 million users …
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After four years of development, Brave Software has released version 1.0 of its browser, an iconoclastic product that strips out conventional website advertisements but that can pay you to see other ads the browser itself supplies. The update brings the payment scheme to iPhones and iPads, meaning that Apple mobile device owners using the browser can now cash in on …
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Liking tweets and retweeting them are fine ways to support your favorite Twitter personalities. But you know what’s better? Cash. And now the Brave browser lets you put your money where your mouse is. Brave has built a Twitter tipping system into the newest version of the ad-blocking browser, released Thursday for Windows, MacOS and Linux. The online gratuity service, …
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Browser startup Brave now can show its privacy-first ads on Android, not just personal computers. The company’s browser blocks websites’ ads and trackers by default, but if you opt in to see Brave-supplied ads instead, you’ll get 70 percent of the resulting revenue. With most of Brave’s users on smartphones, the Android move is a significant expansion of Brave’s advertising …
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If you like your text white on a black background, good news: Browser support for dark mode websites is hitting the big time. Apple built dark mode support into its Safari browser for MacOS and Mozilla followed suit with Firefox. But now dark mode website abilities are coming to Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s newly overhauled Edge and Apple’s Safari on iPhones and …
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