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June 28, 2019

Google's new reCaptcha has a dark side

The latest version of the bot detector reCaptcha is invisible to users and has spread to more than 650,000 websites. It’s great for security—but not so great for your privacy.

Rob Donoghue on Twitter: "Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes next week. The DRM'd books will stop working. I cannot believe that sentence. "The books will stop working." I keep saying it and it sounds worse each time." / Twitter

Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes next week. The DRM'd books will stop working.

Qwant Maps : opensource and privacy-preserving map

Web mapping applications are nowadays an ubiquitous and essential component of
our lives. They bring to the user a set of helpful services that we are now all
used to. Unfortunately the quality of these services depends indirectly on the
user personal data that are often vampirized and exploited, without any respect
for user privacy. Qwant Maps is born from this fact and proposes to give users
exclusive control over their geolocated data.

To this end the choice to use OpenStreetMap [https://www

Reinventing Firefox for Android: a Preview - Future Releases

With Firefox Preview, we’re combining the best of what our lightweight Focus application and our current mobile browsers have to offer to create a best in class mobile experience. The new application is powered by Firefox's own mobile browser engine -- GeckoView -- the same high-performance, feature enabling motor that fuels our Focus app.