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Neritam ☛ DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser Isn’t Private
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about DuckDuckGo, the “branding condom” for Microsoft Bing.
The company is basically “fake”. It has a tiny little office, very few employees, almost all of the results are from Microsoft Bing, and it transmits the search parameters to Microsoft to get those results.
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Mozilla
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Firefox Developer Experience: Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 143
WebDriver is a remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents. As such it can help developers to verify that their websites are working and performing well with all major browsers. The protocol is standardized by theW3C and consists of two separate specifications:WebDriver classic (HTTP) and the newWebDriver BiDi (Bi-Directional).
This newsletter gives an overview of the work we’ve done as part of the Firefox 143 release cycle.
In Firefox 143, two contributors managed to land fixes and improvements in our codebase: [...]
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Tor ☛ New Release: Tor Browser 14.5.7 | The Tor Project
The full changelog since Tor Browser 14.5.6 is: [...]
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Linuxiac ☛ Thunderbird 143 Brings Bug Fixes Across Windows, macOS, and Linux
Thunderbird 143, an open-source email client, fixes crashes, Gmail relay issues, drafts handling bugs, and adds security updates across Windows, macOS, and Linux. [...]
Mozilla has just unveiled Thunderbird version 143 of its widely adopted free and open-source desktop email client, now available for download. One of the more notable fixes is the restoration of Gmail relay support via smtp-relay.gmail.com, which had previously stopped working for some users.
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