Chrome VPN extensions come in several varieties, but each has its limitations compared with standalone applications. We explain how these plug-ins differ and run down the best Chrome VPN extensions we ...

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What would we do without the web browser? For most of us, it’s our gateway to the digital world. But browsers are such a familiar tool today that we’re in danger of giving them a free ride. In fact, ...

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Google is developing a new version of Chrome for Android that supports extensions, and recent builds show significant progress. It’s now possible to install Chrome extensions directly from the Chrome ...

Extension support adds useful extra features to the browsers that are unavailable by default. Mainstream browsers like Google Chrome, which dominates the market, do not support extensions on mobile.

As many of us celebrated the year-end holidays, a small group of researchers worked overtime tracking a startling discovery: At least 33 browser extensions hosted in Google’s Chrome Web Store, some ...

Long, voluminous hair is no longer a pipe dream. Thanks to hair extensions, anyone can now have long hair. As a beauty editor, I’m constantly confronted with the sight of beautiful, overlong Rapunzel ...

In a world where every site wants to show you a loud autoplaying video ad, I still come across videos where the volume is just too low to be audible. Volume Master helps you address that by boosting ...

How often do you assess the risk of browser extensions and their permissions? There are a myriad of browser extensions that can be installed in today’s modern web browsers. While browser extensions ...

Warning: This story has spoilers for "From Scratch." Viewers unfamiliar with Tembi Locke's 2019 memoir "From Scratch" may be surprised by where the Netflix miniseries's plot — which is based on a true ...

AI chatbots and assistants work by gathering information, whether freely available information on the web to power the LLM model or, in some cases, information from the user’s personal log. That ...