June 2018

Third-party cookies are still widely used on today's Internet to track users across browsing sessions and sites they visit. While the reach of the tracking depends on the popularity of a service -- it needs to be implemented in as many sites as possible -- it is fair to say that if you allow third-party cookies to roam freely you will be tracked.

Firefox exposes only some of its cookie options in the browser options. You can block third-party cookies entirely or allow them only for sites you visited in the past.

Yahoo revealed today that it will no longer support Yahoo Messenger, the company's instant messaging program, after July 17, 2018.

Iridium is an open source browser extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox that gives you more control on YouTube.

YouTube gives users only a handful of customization options and many of those are not remembered over sessions or when you don't sign in to an account.

Iridium is a well-designed browser extension that gives you dozens of customization options, from setting the default video quality to remembering the volume level or enabling loudless normalization.

Google plans to roll out a change to the company's login prompt this month that changes the design but not the functionality of the prompt.

When Antibody Software released WizFile back in April 2018, it was already one of the best file search and management tools for the Windows operating system. Now with the release of WizFile 2.0 just months after the initial release, it is even better as the new version adds a ton of new features and improvements to the application.

Burner Emails is a free browser extension and web service that adds options to Firefox and Chrome to create throwaway email addresses.

Spam is still a big issue on the Internet and while email providers like Google or Microsoft got better at identifying spam emails so that these don't even land in your inbox, it is still fair to say that most Internet users will encounter spam on a regular basis if email is used.

Universal Bypass is an open source browser extension for the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers that bypasses intermediary pages created by link shorteners so that you don't have to interact with these pages and get to the actual target of the link right away.

Two types of URL shortening services exist on the Internet: services that provide a short version of any URL and redirect users directly to the link target on load, and services that display intermediary pages, usually filled with advertisement or requests to sign-up.

You may install a Ram disk on your Windows PC to improve performance, maintenance, and privacy on the device.

Ram disks can best be described as memory-based drives that act just like any other hard drive on the system for the most part. You can install programs on RAM disks or use it to store temporary files.

These disks offer advantages over regular hard drives: memory is faster which means that operations will benefit from that. Memory is cleared automatically on shutdown so that any files that reside on the disk are removed automatically.

Mozilla plans to release Firefox 60.0.2 later today to the stable channel. The new version of the Firefox web browser is a security and bugfix release, and a recommended update for users of the stable version of the browser.

Mozilla released Firefox 60.0 to the stable channel in the beginning of May and published Firefox 60.0.1 at the end of May fixing several bugs in the browser.

Microsoft plans to release a feature that it calls Sets currently in the next feature update for Windows 10. While it is not 100% certain that Sets will make an appearance in a few months -- the feature update will be released in September/October -- it is already possible to give this a try in recent Windows 10 Insider builds.