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Your personal data is a digital goldmine for advertisers, businesses, and scammers. When you conduct online activities, companies harvest your data and sell it to data brokers, who can use this to ...

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Setting up a new operating system on your PC can give you a fresh, clean start. But each new installation also comes with some unwanted garbage, from bundled software you don't need, to pesky features ...

I’m not sure how it happened, but over time my web browser has amassed all kinds of bad auto-fill data. The great promise of auto-fill is that you can fill out online forms with one click, but too ...

Use Safari's Distraction Control to remove web page elements that are distracting, annoying, or get in the way of usability. The feature is not an ad-blocker, but can be used to hide images, videos, ...

Every web browser has what's called a cache: a temporary storage space for web pages that syncs online content to your computer or mobile device. This syncing is designed to help websites load up ...

The Google Toolbar supplements its search bar with buttons that configure how you search. Some buttons use Google features such as Google Maps, Google Images, Google News and Google Finance. Others ...