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MembersThe Quiet Coup Against Incognito Mode
Your incognito tab isn’t incognito when the plumbing’s been rewired to report back home.
MembersUSA v. Google – Week 6
The trial that could change the internet forever.
Firefox removes Yandex search, will auto-switch affected users to Google
Support for Russia’s Mail.ru is also pulled.
Google is the search engine that censors the most “conspiracy theories”
Nothing surprising.
DuckDuckGo developers urge Justice Department to force Android to allow default search engine choice
DuckDuckGo outlined how it could work.
YouTube at risk of being blocked in Russia over copyright issues
A court has threatened YouTube with being blocked by ISPs unless it takes down and keeps down copyrighted content.
Google is worried an antitrust probe will reveal its secrets
Google may not be known for respecting the privacy of others, but it doesn’t want anyone knowing its own secrets.
Yandex Zen sets its sights on being a YouTube competitor
The Yandex video service lets bloggers upload videos on Yandex Zen that must be under 15 minutes long, which then get recommended based on established user preferences.
Google fined for not censoring search results according to Russia’s blacklist
Russia issued Google with a fine for not actively censoring search results that were on its blacklist.
Western governments issued a “Regin” malware attack on Russia’s Yandex service, Reuters reports
Spokesperson for Yandex, Ilya Grabovsky, confirmed the incident.
New Russian law will require all domestic traffic to be encrypted with government-controlled tools
The law would make it easier for Russian authorities to control and censor the internet and the domestic encryption tools may also have undiscovered security vulnerabilities.