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Author: Martin Brinkmann

When I was young, I studied German, History and English at Essen University in Germany. I worked in computer support for several years at the time to help other computer users when they ran into issues. Writing started out as a passion project, as I wanted to help more users and not just the ones that I handled in support. This lead to the founding of Ghacks Technology News in 2005. First, as a side-project, but shortly thereafter as a full-time project as the site's popularity exploded. I sold Ghacks to Softonic some years ago, but stayed on as Editor. You can still read my articles on the site. I do publish on Betanews as well. In recent years, I started to write and publish technology books, including my latest book "Windows 11 From Beginner to Advanced", which is available on Amazon. I'm also a freelance writer for the German publisher Gamestar. Chipp.in is my newest project. I want to use it to talk about my book projects, sell my books directly, and write about technology, as this is what interests me.
Firefox

Mozilla removes Adjust marketing integration from Firefox Mobile

Posted on August 25, 2024August 25, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Mozilla has used Adjust in Firefox for mobile products for years for a very specific purpose: to determine if the installation of the mobile browser originated from an advertising campaign. In other words, Adjust helped Mozilla track conversions of its advertising campaigns. It also send anonymous usage summaries occasionally, according to Mozilla. Starting in Firefox…

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Super God Mode for Windows gives admins what Microsoft does not give them

Posted on August 24, 2024August 24, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

When it comes to managing a single Windows device, you often have to juggle between various administrative tools. Two of the most-used ones are the Control Panel and the Settings app. There are dozens more, however, from the Device Manager and Registry to the Task Manager and Group Policy Editor. Super God Mode is a…

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Office

LibreOffice 24.8: you can now block active content in documents

Posted on August 23, 2024August 23, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

An update for the open source cross-platform office suite LibreOffice is now available. LibreOffice 24.8 is available for all supported systems. The new version includes over a hundred improved or new features. Several are important from a security point of view. The details: Several of these options are interesting from an end-users point of view….

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Is Microsoft really, finally killing the Windows Control Panel?

Posted on August 22, 2024August 22, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Almost a decade ago, Microsoft said that the Settings app of the then-new operating system Windows 10 would replace the classic Control Panel of the operating system. While Microsoft did move some options from the Control Panel to the Settings app over the years, it has, to this day, failed to migrate them all. On…

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Opera One: first look at the new dynamic themes feature of the browser

Posted on August 21, 2024August 21, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Opera Software has launched a new Opera One developer update that introduces a new feature in the browser. Called Dynamic Themes, it is adding animation to themes in the Opera browser. Opera explains: The new dynamic Themes are built using the Shaders technology and are rendered using your device’s GPU. You can configure each Theme…

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WhatsApp

WhatsApp: set an optional username and Pin for protection against unwanted messages

Posted on August 20, 2024August 20, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

WhatsApp is working on a new feature that is intended to improve the privacy of its users. The main idea adds two new features to the messaging service: Any WhatsApp user may contact any other user on the platform currently. All that is required for that is a phone number. While the contacted user has…

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Advertising

Oh look, Google ads are again used to scam Google Search users

Posted on August 19, 2024August 19, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Threat actors have launched another malvertising campaign on Google Search. While that is not really anything to write about anymore in this day and age, this time is special. Not only did the threat actors manage to plant scam ads on Google, they did furthermore impersonate Google’s entire product line and used Google domains for…

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Brand Love: Google’s unethical attempt to get only positive Pixel reviews

Posted on August 18, 2024August 18, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Influencers play an important role in marketing today. They tend to have a certain reach that makes cooperations with them attractive to companies. It should not come as a surprise that influencers get offers to test devices. Companies send them the devices free of charge in the hope that they get a review by the…

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WhatsApp

WhatsApp: the end of Spam? New feature is a tiny step towards that goal

Posted on August 17, 2024August 17, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

WhatsApp is working on a new feature that will block messages from unknown accounts. Before you get too excited about it, there is a big but coming up soon. If you are using WhatsApp, you may have experienced your fair share of spam. Be it messages from unknown accounts or even calls. Over the past…

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Google Pixel Weather App

A first look at Google’s new Weather app

Posted on August 16, 2024August 16, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Google announced several new Pixel devices this week as well as new AI and services, some of them exclusive at the time of writing. The company’s main announcement on its official The Keyword website focuses more on software and services, and less on the hardware of the Pixel devices. Among the new features is a…

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