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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.
“Google Unlocked” Extension Allows You to Uncensor DMCA Google Search Links
The extension goes through Google’s massive Lumen Database listing legal complaints and takedown requests.
Telegram’s New Update Lets You Delete Messages for You and the Person You’re Chatting To
Users will now be able to nuke their private chat communications completely from both devices involved in the exchange.
5 Books for Understanding the State of the Internet in 2019
We’ve selected a few released and to-be-released books about the state of the internet today that would hopefully help you make sense of it and decide how you’re going to let internet affect your life from now on.
These Google Photos Alternatives Give You More Privacy
Google’s AI allows it to scan your images for recognition of faces, brands, locations, and preferences, and subsequently target ads and other information towards you.
Firefox’s New Update Makes the Internet Less Annoying
No more abrupt auto-playing videos, popups, and page jumps