Mozilla Cracks Down On Third Party Cookies Parties
Every once and a while it is worth looking at the state of tracking cookies and what browsers are doing to keep them from becoming the predominant parasite on the interwebs. For…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 5, 2020 | General Tech | 0
Every once and a while it is worth looking at the state of tracking cookies and what browsers are doing to keep them from becoming the predominant parasite on the interwebs. For…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 19, 2020 | General Tech | 0
The Mozilla VPN extension has been in beta since last September in the US for Windows 10, Chromebooks, Android, and iOS devices. Originally it was a free service but with this change…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Sep 2, 2019 | General Tech | 0
When Graydon Hoare of Mozilla (and later others) designed Rust, they wanted a fast, concurrent, memory-safe language without garbage collection because web browsers need to be fast and resistant to...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jun 29, 2019 | General Tech | 1
Track THIS is a website that will give advertisers an interesting (and probably wrong) view of who you are. Once you select a persona, the website will launch a...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 10, 2019 | General Tech | 1
Would you consider paying for a premium version of FireFox, as it is something which the Mozilla Foundation is considering as a new way to generate revenue? They are suggesting that this…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jun 4, 2019 | General Tech | 0
Dave Camp, who is the Senior Vice President of Firefox at Mozilla, wrote a blog about multiple Firefox anti-tracking initiatives at the organization. First up is Enhanced Tracking Protection. For new...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | May 21, 2019 | General Tech | 2
Since 2016, a new version of Firefox has come out every six-to-nine weeks. Mozilla occasionally markets specific versions more heavily than others, such as their Quantum branding with Firefox...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Apr 29, 2019 | General Tech | 0
Mozilla has just published a Google Doc that outlines their plans for Fennec (Firefox for Android). It looks like this document was supposed to coordinate Mozilla employees and volunteers, so the specifics...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 10, 2019 | General Tech | 0
The upcoming version of Firefox will include anti-fingerprinting technology to increase your privacy when browsing the web. Fingerprinting is a bit different from dumping a cookie on your system, instead advertisers can…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Feb 12, 2019 | General Tech | 9
The basic premise of “deep learning” is that you process big pools of data to try and find “good” and/or “bad” patterns. After you build up a set of trained data, you…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Aug 11, 2018 | General Tech | 0
Starting with a slowly-ramping group of ~50,000 Canadians, Discord has begun distributing PC games. Specifically, there will be two services for paying members of the Discord Nitro beta program: a...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jul 7, 2018 | General Tech | 5
I don’t think this should surprise anyone, but it’s good to report on none-the-less. There was a popular browser extension, called Stylish, that allowed users to customize the pages that they visit,…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 5, 2018 | General Tech | 1
Mozilla is working on Firefox Reality, a browser with an interface specifically designed for AR and VR interaction. The source code for the browser is available already, you can follow the
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Nov 25, 2017 | General Tech | 16
While I like the flexibility that JavaScript brings to the web, I also like that tools exist to control it. NoScript is a relatively popular Firefox extension that does just that. When…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Aug 23, 2017 | General Tech | 0
If you’re on Firefox Nightly, you are able to enable their new CSS engine with an about:config flag, called layout.css.servo.enabled. For a few years now, Mozilla has been working on...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jun 5, 2017 | General Tech | 0
At WWDC, Valve and HTC announced that their SteamVR platform would be arriving for macOS. This means that the HTC Vive can now be targeted by...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Mar 14, 2017 | General Tech | 5
HTML5 was a compile target for Unreal Engine since Unreal Engine 3, but it was supposed to be a bigger push for Unreal Engine 4 then it has been. At the time,…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Mar 8, 2017 | General Tech | 1
Mozilla’s latest browser version, Firefox 52, was just released to the public on Tuesday. I wasn’t planning on putting up a post about it, but I...
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