If you work with your PC, willy-nilly it will happen that time you need to use Google Chrome. Based on the Chromium opensource project, Google Chrome is the browser of reference and the most popular currently. It doesn’t matter if you are using Linux, macOS or Windows, the browser par excellence remains the same: Google Chrome. Installing Google Chrome may[…]
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The Facebook case. How advertisers track people on the internet
I often hear about this slightly creepy internet experience: you’re looking at a product online, and a day later see an ad for the same boots or whatever that you were looking at. This is called “retargeting”, but how does it actually work exactly in practice? In this post we’ll experiment a bit and see exactly how Facebook can know[…]
Read moreCan the Internet Survive Climate Change?
In a tiny apartment in the Spanish coastal town of El Masnou, just outside of Barcelona, Kris de Decker runs a website completely powered by a small solar panel crammed into the corner of his balcony. With its light blue background and low-res imagery, the site for Low-Tech Magazine is intentionally retro—a callback to blogs and self-hosted sites from the[…]
Read moreWriting for the smartphone in the modern era
We are writing on electronic devices all of our hours and days, in several different ways, with multiple styles and factors. The transformation of newspapers, from typographic to digital composition, the color above the black and white, the pixels over the pen signs. The digital editions of many newspapers around the world are deeply different from the analogic versions and[…]
Read moreSurf the web anonymously and incognito
Anonymous navigation, incognito mode and many other similar terms are becoming commonly used terminologies thanks to the numerous implementations of different navigation methodologies to surf the web without leaving a trace. Available on all the most common browsers and on all the most widespread operating systems, these operating modes have given rise to some minor misunderstandings and, if on the[…]
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