Microsoft has removed 18 Edge browser extensions from the Edge Add-ons portal after the extensions were caught injecting ads into users’ web search results pages. From a report: The extensions were removed between November 20 and November 25 after Microsoft received multiple complaints from users via Reddit. A subsequent investigation found multiple abusive extensions that had been uploaded on Microsoft’s new…
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Most Dedicated VPN IP-Addresses Are Not Anonymous
“Many VPN services advertise themselves as ideal tools to offer security, privacy, and anonymity. To ensure the latter, they often have no-logging policies to prevent individual users from being exposed,” writes Ernesto Van der Sar via TorrentFreak. “However, this is not necessarily true for the small group that use dedicated or static IP-addresses.” From the report: Today, most of the top…
NordVPN Unveils First Mainstream WireGuard Virtual Private Network
One of the largest VPN companies, NordVPN, is rolling out NordLynx — it’s first mainstream WireGuard virtual private network for its Windows, Mac, Android and iOS client-software applications. ZDNet reports: NordVPN’s own tests have shown NordLynx easily outperforms the other protocols, IKEv2/IPsec and OpenVPN. How much faster? According to NordVPN’s 256,886 speed tests, “When a user connects to a nearby VPN…