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Buster is a new browser extension that automatically solves annoying CAPTCHAs for you
A new open-source plug-in, Buster, will solve these tests for you by employing automatic speech recognition to solve reCAPTCHA audio challenges.
Tresorit Send is one of the easiest ways to easily send files privately
Tresorit Send is fairly easy to use – their attention to details and user experience is evident.
Cubbit works like cloud storage, but you keep your data at home
Maybe there’s a way to have convenience and privacy at the same time.
Google Chrome Web Store bans free speech comments extension Dissenter
Google’s decision to remove Dissenter comes within 24 hours of Mozilla’s decision to remove Dissenter from the Firefox extensions store.
Firefox rejects free speech, bans free speech commenting plugin Dissenter from its extensions gallery
Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, said that the extension had been disabled because it does not comply with Mozilla’s Acceptable Use Policy.
Indie social platform Micro.blog now allows video uploads
You may upload video files smaller than 45Mb which is about 55-65 seconds of 720P video.
New Firefox feature is designed to make websites less annoying
The main idea behind this experiment is to study how users interact with notifications and collect valuable data about types of notifications that should be blocked by default.
Cloudflare announces Warp: a free VPN that it claims will actually respect your privacy
Cloudflare claims that its Warp VPN will not write any user-identifiable log data to disk, will purge all debug logs within 24 hours, and will not require any personally identifiable information to start using the service.
ProtonMail benefits: An email service for everyone that values privacy – which should be everyone
ProtonMail is sending a message that we can still fight for something greater.
German consumer group awards StartPage.com with a “best search engine” award, mostly due to its privacy
Startpage.com CEO Roberts Been was thrilled by the news and said the company was honored to achieve first place in the test.
Google’s AMP for Gmail is everything you never wanted, and a middle finger to the open standards of the internet
The future of internet looks like everything that it wasn’t supposed to be.
BitTorrent Live will be a new, decentralized live-streaming app with blockchain, privacy and user-content ownership ambitions
According to the spokesman, BitTorrent Live will be available to beta testers in Q2 of this year and open to the public late this year.