Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

An upcoming release of Firefox will give users the option to block two increasingly common and ugly aspects of today's web: browser fingerprinting and cryptomining scripts. Neither type of script is ...

The latest release of Mozilla's Firefox browser will now block third-party tracking cookies by default. The privacy protection arrived Tuesday in Firefox 67.0.1. "When it comes to privacy, default ...

Windows users can become a lot more invisible to advertisers on the Web, thanks to an update to Mozilla Firefox featuring a tracking-protection measure that’s on by default when you install the ...

The number of sites that support WebVR compatible content is growing every day. Many such sites request access to your virtual reality devices to provide immersive 3D content. If you don’t have any VR ...

If you want to block social media apps from yourself, there are dozens of apps and tools you can use, including Freedom, StayFocusd, and RescueTime.

While some businesses give their employees free rein over the internet, doing so isn’t always the wisest decision. Certain websites can impede employee productivity and even leave your company ...

Firefox's latest release aims to fix one of the most annoying things about surfing around the web — videos with sound that autoplay when you load a new page, which can now be blocked in Firefox 66 ...

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A Web site owner has blocked Firefox users from accessing his site in protest of a popular browser extension that blocks text and display ads. “Accessing the content while blocking the ads therefore ...

Mozilla has released Firefox 87 for Macs, Windows, and Linux machines, introducing a new intelligent tracker blocking mechanism called SmartBlock. Since 2015, Firefox has included a built-in Content ...