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Let’s say you’ve joined a travel company’s rewards program. In doing so, you handed over your email address. As you plan your next trip, maybe you’ll do a Google search on “non-stop flights to new york,” much to the delight of the advertising-engorged company. If you’re logged in to any Google account, you may very...

Since it was released, Windows 10 has incited a privacy furor. Hundreds of commenters on sites such as Hacker News and Reddit have criticised default settings that send personal information to Microsoft and use bandwidth to upload data to other Windows 10 computers. Concerns have risen over the Wi-Fi password sharing feature, Microsoft’s plans to...

The morality of blocking ads is a perplexing dilemma. That was made clear when Marco Arment – developer of the Peace ad-blocker that shot to the top of Apple’s paid app list when Apple rolled out iOS 9 and allowed users to add ad-blocking extensions for the first time – pulled a 180-degree turn and...

Facebook knows a lot about you. If you were honest when you first signed up, it knows your real name, age, gender, location and interests – as well as what you have done on-site ever since – valuable data indeed when it comes to delivering relevant advertisements to your browser. But ad companies want more,...

Ads are larger and harder to dismiss on mobile, they slow down page loading with JavaScript, that in turn leads to burned battery power, they waste the cellular data that many of us have to pay for on a metered basis – and they can be used to deliver malware, exploits and fraud. How does...

This week has already been a roller coaster ride for ad-block users – between Apple promising to open the flood gates to ad-blocking in the Safari browser on upcoming iPhones and iPads, and Chrome users groaning after it looked like Google was cutting the knees off AdBlock and forcing them to sit through video ads...