internetprivacy
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The Best Firefox Extensions Everyone Should Use
If you use Firefox, you can make it a better browser by installing add-ons. Yes, that’s what Mozilla calls them — they’re talking about what everyone else knows as “extensions.” Whatever you call them, there are good ones out there that can help you do everything from improving your privacy to getting around restrictions you’ll…
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Download Your Tweets Before Quitting Twitter
Planning to leave Twitter? It’s not a bad idea. But before you start to delete your Twitter account, do yourself a favour and download your tweets for yourself. Fortunately, Twitter does a good job of making it fairly easy. Instead of a text file, you’ll get a zip file that can open an interactive archive…
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The Best Privacy Features in DuckDuckGo’s New Web Browser
It’s hard to convince people to change at all, but it’s especially difficult to switch to a different web browser. Whether you’re team Chrome, Edge, Safari, or one of the other dozens of options, you like what you like. DuckDuckGo has its work cut out for them if they want users to hop aboard its…
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Stop Sharing Tinder Screenshots on the Internet, You Monsters
“The internet has a privacy problem,” isn’t a statement that’s likely to shock you. But just because we’ve all lost a lot of what we traditionally think of as privacy, doesn’t mean we need to resort to bad behaviour. Case in point: If you’re sharing screenshots of people’s dating app profiles, you need to stop.