Web Browsers
Changes to how Mozilla Readability extract metadata in Firefox 63
Firefox’s Reading Mode now prefers Dublin Core and Open Graph Protocol metadata when available over other metadata sources.
Web Browsers
Web Browsers
Web Reading Mode: A bad reading experience
Browser reading modes are inconsistent and readers never know what they’ll get when clicking on the Reading Mode button.
Web Browsers
Web Reading Mode: Title, author, and date metadata extraction
How do browser reading modes detect metadata like the article title, publication date, and author? There’s no standard so web browsers all do their own thing.
Web Browsers
Web Reading Mode: Determining the main page content
How do browser reading modes determine what is the main page content? They use different approaches and there’s no defined standard.
Web Browsers
Web Reading Mode: The non-standard rendering mode
Browser reading modes use a completely non-standard rendering mode and implementations vary greatly from browser to browser.
Authentication and Passwords
Firefox, Security Keys, U2F, and Google Advanced Protection
How to use U2F security keys (USB A or C, Bluetooth, others) with Firefox and Google’s Advanced Account Protection program.
Web Analytics
How to detect Brave despite it not having a unique User-Agent
Brave browser pretends to be Google Chrome to avoid being blocked. You can, however, still detect it by analyzing its uniqueness.
Advertisement Technology
New AdSense APIs for gathering user-consent
A look at the new Google AdSense APIs for obtaining GDPR and ePrivacy consent with custom-built data-sharing consent-screens.
Accessibility
Google Chrome finally includes a Reader Mode but only on Android
Chrome goes against Google’s ad-business-interests and introduces a distraction/ad-free reading mode experience in Chrome for Android.
Web Analytics
What breaks if you use First-Party Isolation in Firefox
Firefox’s FPI system keeps websites from tracking your movements across websites. This gives excellent privacy protections but at a cost of web compatibility.
Web Analytics
How to limit tracking in software downloads
Here is what you can do to protect yourself against websites injecting tracking-code into the software installers you download.
Web Analytics
Software downloads now contain unique tracking identifiers
Popular software vendors inject unique tracking identifiers when you download their installers to track you all the from the web and onto the desktop.