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June 2024

  • An iPhone screen with icons for apps including Safari

    Apple to close years-old loophole that lets children bypass parental controls

    Children can view internet unrestricted by entering a certain nonsense phrase into Safari address bar

August 2022

  • Harry Styles’s stylist, Harry Lambert, in his studio in Hackney, surrounded by clothes and shoes

    Celebrities tap into secondhand clothes trend by selling on pre-loved sites

    Famous names list their unwanted items as Gen Z shuns fast fashion in favour of pre-owned purchases

June 2022

  • Google logo is placed on the Apple Macbook in this illustration

    Apple and Google’s mobile browser ‘stranglehold’ may face UK investigation

    ‘Effective duopoly’ holds back Britain’s tech sector and restricts customer choice, says CMA

May 2022

  • Recommended browsers

    The Guardian website aims to support all major browsers available today. Unfortunately, we can’t support every version of every browser

December 2021

  • Bernie Sanders wearing mittens

    Google’s 2021 search list: Bernie Sanders’ mittens and Squid Game top the trends

    Annual list reveals most searched-for terms globally related to sports, investing, Covid and skinny jeans

September 2020

  • YouTube logos on a computer screen

    YouTube viewers to help uncover how users are sent to harmful videos

    Extension on Firefox browser will allow users to record information about videos recommended by site

December 2019

  • Protecting your privacy online requires changes to the tools you use and the way you access information on the internet.

    Ask Jack
    How do I protect my online privacy from 'surveillance capitalism'?

    Chris wants to better protect his privacy. What can he easily do besides de-Googling his online life

October 2019

  • democracydotcom

    Chips with Everything
    All in a domain name: Chips with Everything podcast

    The web domain democracy.com went up for auction last week with an asking price of at least $300,000 (£233,000). This week, Jordan Erica Webber looks at what makes a few words in a web browser worth thousands, if not millions of dollars. She’s joined by Edward Helmore, Talmage Cooley and Brad Karp of UCL

February 2019

  • google chrome browser on a microsoft surface go

    Ask Jack
    How can I back up my bookmarks and access them online?

    Jenifer wants a backup while EC wants a replacement for Google+, which is shutting down

October 2018

  • The Guardian

    Guardian named UK's most trusted newspaper

  • DNA test results<br>Jamie Jones

    The briefing
    What is the internet? 13 key questions answered

September 2018

  • Portrait of an attractive woman at table hands at temples<br>Portrait of an attractive woman at table with cup and laptop, book, notebook on it, hands at her temples. Bookshelf at the background. Concept photo

    Ask Jack
    How can I fix my Windows 10 laptop's browser?

    Firefox no longer works on Angela’s machine and she has been forced to use Microsoft Edge. How can she fix it?

August 2018

  • An iPod advert in California from 2006

    From Macs to iPods and apps: how Apple revolutionised technology

    Over 42 years, the company has created an ‘app economy’ and placed itself at the centre of it

May 2018

  • High Court Google challenge<br>File photo dated 27/01/16 of a Google logo, as a mass legal action against the tech giant over claims it unlawfully collected personal information from millions of iPhone users has reached the High Court in London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Saturday May 19, 2018. The litigation is being brought by campaign group Google You Owe Us, led by former Which? director Richard Lloyd. See PA story COURTS Google. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire

    Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of 4.4m UK iPhone users' browsing data

  • Chrome

    Google tried to block autoplay videos on Chrome. But it broke apps and games

April 2018

  • Google’s Chrome browser will now block irritating auto-playing video with sound by default, unless users actively want to watch the content.

    Google Chrome now blocks autoplaying video with sound

  • Password Icon

    RIP passwords: new web standard designed to replace login method

March 2018

  • FILE PHOTO: An advertisement is played on a set of large screens at the Microsoft office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on January 25, 2017.   REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

    Windows 10: Microsoft is looking to force people to use its Edge browser

    Company looks for feedback on change that will make Windows Mail links open in Edge even if users have Chrome or Firefox set as default

February 2018

  • Google’s Chrome browser will begin blocking some adverts from 15 February.

    Google turns on default adblocker within Chrome

    Users of latest Chrome browser on Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Android will have some of most intrusive types of ads blocked automatically

January 2018

  • A woman looks at the screen of her mobile phone in front of an Apple logo outside its store in Shanghai, China July 30, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song     TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    No tracking, no revenue: Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions

    Ad-tech firm Criteo likely to cut its 2018 revenue by more than a fifth after Apple blocked ‘pervasive’ tracking on web browser Safari
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