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Apple’s Safari browser surpasses 1 billion users milestone

Tuesday, May 31, 2022 10:33 amNo Comments

According to the findings by the Atlas VPN team, 1,006,232,879 internet users (19.16% of all internet users) now use the Safari browser…

Apple releases Safari Technology Preview 118

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 4:44 pm1 Comment

The experimental browser Apple first introduced four years ago in March 2016, Safari Technology Preview, today has a new update…

iPhone users could get £750 from Google ‘illegal’ tracking of data, including race, health, politics and sexuality

Wednesday, October 2, 2019 3:15 pmWednesday, October 2, 20195 Comments

Google siphoned personal data, including information on physical and mental heath, political affiliations, sexuality and sexual interests from iPhone users…

U.S. appeals court voids Google ‘cookie’ privacy settlement that paid Safari, Explorer browser users nothing

Wednesday, August 7, 2019 8:55 am1 Comment

A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down Google’s class-action settlement meant to resolve claims it invaded the privacy of millions of computer users…

Apple’s Safari on iPadOS is living up to the hype

Friday, June 7, 2019 4:47 pmFriday, June 7, 20193 Comments

In iPadOS, Apple is setting the Safari user agent to the desktop version (previously, Safari on iPad has used a mobile user agent), but that’s only the tip of the iceberg…

Secure Safari: How to stay safe using Apple’s browser

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 3:56 pmTuesday, October 2, 2018No Comments

Apple’s Safari is the second most popular web browser in the world…

Alphabet Inc’s Google could face $4.3 billion claim in U.K. iPhone privacy case

Monday, May 21, 2018 11:01 amMonday, May 21, 20186 Comments

iPhone users suing Google over data-collection claims may be seeking as much as 3.2 billion pounds ($4.29 billion)…

Google could be forced to pay over five million iPhone users £2.7 billion for selling their data without their consent

Thursday, November 30, 2017 10:29 am21 Comments

Google could be forced to pay over five million iPhone users £2.7 billion in compensation…

Sorry, but Silicon Valley isn’t special anymore

Friday, August 25, 2017 9:25 amFriday, August 25, 20176 Comments

Steve Jobs once said, speaking about the irreverent culture he helped create…

How Google is secretly recording Android settlers, monitoring millions of conversations every day and storing the creepy audio files

Tuesday, August 22, 2017 3:35 pm15 Comments

Google has effectively turned millions of its users’ smartphones into listening devices

Google Chrome under attack: Have you used one of these hijacked extensions?

Wednesday, August 16, 2017 10:25 amWednesday, August 16, 20178 Comments

Attackers have been phishing developers to compromise Chrome extensions to spread…

Apple’s iPhone turns ten: No product in recent history has changed people’s lives more

Thursday, June 29, 2017 12:00 pmThursday, June 29, 20175 Comments

The firm’s approach to data privacy will determine Apple’s success in the coming years…

That apple.com link you clicked on? Yeah, it’s actually Russian

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 1:01 pmTuesday, April 18, 201735 Comments

Didn’t we fix this back in 2005? Apparently not…

Mossberg: What’s up with Firefox, the browser that time forgot?

Wednesday, January 25, 2017 1:01 pmWednesday, January 25, 201721 Comments

Until about five years ago, techies and others who wanted a speedier, extensible…

Apple patching Safari flaw revealed at PWNFEST

Friday, November 11, 2016 4:04 pm8 Comments

Safari wasn’t the only browser to fall victim at the PWNFEST conference: Microsoft Edge…

Apple releases Safari Technology Preview 12

Wednesday, August 31, 2016 5:31 pmWednesday, August 31, 2016No Comments

Apple today released another update for Safari Technology Preview…

Google to pay $5.5 million for sneaking around Apple’s privacy settings to collect user data

Wednesday, August 31, 2016 2:18 pmWednesday, August 31, 201617 Comments

Perhaps if Google had taken its own ‘don’t be evil’ motto to heart…

Internet Exploder: Beleaguered Microsoft continues to hemorrhage browser share at record rates

Wednesday, July 6, 2016 9:45 amWednesday, July 6, 201610 Comments

Another 33 million users deserted Microsoft’s browsers last month…

UK Supreme Court allows Google to appeal ruling granting Apple Safari users the right to sue over ad tracking

Wednesday, July 29, 2015 12:56 pmWednesday, July 29, 20156 Comments

The UK’s Supreme Court has granted Google permission to appeal against…

Apple’s Safari took 55% of US mobile and tablet usage share in March

Wednesday, April 22, 2015 3:32 pmWednesday, April 22, 201519 Comments

Apple’s Safari browser accounted for over half of US mobile and tablet internet usage…

Free: ‘The world’s most secure and private browser’ for Mac or Windows

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 11:59 am24 Comments

Your local internal address is blocked, which stops malicious website pages…

Mozilla releases massive Firefox update

Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:01 amTuesday, April 29, 201417 Comments

Mozilla released the first major interface refresh for Firefox on Tuesday…

Which Web browser is best for privacy?

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 1:01 pm17 Comments

Different browsers handle user data in different ways…

What’s the best Mac Web browser?

Friday, January 31, 2014 2:01 pmFriday, January 31, 201434 Comments

Most Mac users are familiar with Apple’s distinctive Safari web browser…

Google to pay $17 million to settle U.S. states’ Safari user tracking probe

Wednesday, November 20, 2013 8:58 amWednesday, November 20, 20139 Comments

Google Inc will pay $17 million to settle allegations by 37 states…

Judge dismisses case against Google over Safari user tracking

Friday, October 11, 2013 1:03 pmFriday, October 11, 201337 Comments

It just got even tougher to stop a company from tracking your movements online…

What’s the best Mac internet browser?

Monday, August 19, 2013 12:27 pmMonday, August 19, 201342 Comments

Web browsing in Mac OS X couldn’t be easier…

Camino browser is kaput

Friday, May 31, 2013 1:04 pmFriday, May 31, 201311 Comments

After a decade-long run, Camino is no longer being developed…

What is the best Mac browser?

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 1:01 pmWednesday, May 29, 201355 Comments

Many Mac users are familiar with Safari…

Web browsers are reinvented; Apple’s Safari dominates mobile phones and tablets

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 4:02 pmTuesday, May 14, 201315 Comments

Apple’s Safari browser leads on mobile phones and tablets

Does WebKit face a troubled future now that Google has gone on the Blink?

Monday, April 8, 2013 2:32 pmMonday, April 8, 201326 Comments

Now that Google is going its own way and developing its rendering engine…

Google forks WebKit with new open source rendering engine ‘Blink’

Thursday, April 4, 2013 8:40 amThursday, April 4, 201313 Comments

WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001…

EU fines Microsoft $733 million for breaking browser choice pact

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 9:45 am20 Comments

The European Union has fined Microsoft €561 million ($733 million) for breaking a pledge…

Happy 10th birthday Safari! Thanks for changing everything

Thursday, January 17, 2013 12:05 pmThursday, January 17, 201315 Comments

Ten years ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs surprised the Internet world by unveiling Safari…

Usage of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer only high because it’s forced upon workers

Friday, August 10, 2012 4:42 pmFriday, August 10, 201231 Comments

What browser are you using?

Obama’s privacy plan puts pinch on Google

Friday, February 24, 2012 3:34 pmFriday, February 24, 201275 Comments

Jonathan Mayer of Stanford University found that Google intentionally circumvented Safari’s privacy feature…

Obama administration outlines online privacy guidelines

Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:35 am14 Comments

The Obama administration on Wednesday outlined a set of online privacy principles…

Google responds to Microsoft over privacy issues, calls IE’s cookie policy ‘widely non-operational’

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 9:15 amTuesday, February 21, 201217 Comments

Microsoft has accused Google of manipulating Internet Explorer’s default privacy restrictions…

WSJ: Google tracked iPhone, iPad users, bypassing Apple’s Safari browser privacy settings; Microsoft denounces

Friday, February 17, 2012 9:27 pm56 Comments

Safari normally blocks cookies used by ad networks and others to track people…

Safari 5 for OS X, Firefox 9 for Windows 7 crowned victors of browser benchmark battle

Friday, January 6, 2012 12:43 pm14 Comments

Tom’s Hardware has been running its meticulously detailed Browser Grand Prix…

Firefox 9 released: Adds back and forward swipe gestures for Mac OS X Lion

Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:26 pm10 Comments

Firefox 9 has just been released for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux…

Google’s Chrome is the most secured browser, new study: Firefox finishes last in 3 browser security race

Friday, December 9, 2011 10:49 amFriday, December 9, 201120 Comments

Google Chrome offers more protection against online attacks…

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