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The Jellyfin media server can enrich your media collection with metadata from online sources. The price may be free, but the cost is metadata for metadata.

How to get Microsoft Edge back into your Windows Timeline

The new Microsoft Edge doesn’t currently support Windows Timeline. Here’s an extension that reintegrates the browser with Windows Timeline/Task View.

Promote your Onion site with the Onion-Location HTTP header

A new HTTP header enables websites to redirect their visitors using the Tor Browser to their more secure Onion site.

How to block web browser-based localhost port-scans

Websites are port-scanning your localhost. Here’s how to stop random websites from knowing what services are running on your device.

First impressions of the Scroll news subscription service

Scroll wants to be your one-stop subscription service for news published all over the web. How does it work? and can one subscription save journalism?

Bluetooth privacy and the FreeStyle Libre 2 glucose monitoring system

The FreeStyle Libre 2 can push critical glucose level alerts to your phone. Great for managing diabetes, but it also makes you trackable out in the world.

How to test if your Bluetooth devices support BLE Privacy

Some Bluetooth Low-energy (BLE) devices support the BLE Privacy extension that makes their location harder to track. How to test if your devices support it.

Google should auto-delete aging user data by default

Users can now opt-in to have some of their personal data be deleted after some months. The GDPR says this should be the default, however.

Safari’s Beacon API problems

You must implement the Beacon API the way WebKit deems to be “the right way” to make it work on iOS, Safari, and WebKit browsers.

My thoughts on Firefox blocking tracking/ad cookies by default

A small AdSense publishers’ perspective on Firefox’s new cookie-blocking policy change.

Goodbye FastMail

The Australian government’s new privacy-unfriendly anti-encryption interception and surveillance law succeeds in undermining trust in Australian tech companies.

A new browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that gives people the choice to opt-out of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in favor of the open web.

Extension enhances privacy of all embedded YouTube videos

Ensure better privacy for YouTube videos embedded around the web with this new Firefox browser extension.

Windows Timeline browser add-on raises few privacy concerns

New browser extension integrates Firefox and Chrome browser histories with Windows Timeline. Well-received by the press despite negatively impacting user privacy.

Personal data should be auto-delete after a few months by default

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) makes it clear that apps and services must delete their customers’ data when it’s no longer useful.

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.

GDPR in Practice: Flattr now deletes your history within 3 months

Flattr improves customer privacy protections by automatically deleting collected data when its no longer needed for its core service.

I’d welcome usage reporting in Fedora Linux

Debian and Ubuntu have benefitted from good package reporting and analytics. It’s time Fedora Linux started collecting some more usage metrics.