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Watching videos on YouTube is the favorite pastime of many Internet users. Those without YouTube Premium have to sit through ads before they get to see the video that they clicked on. The main way around this is to use an ad blocker. Good ones block video ads on YouTube so that the actual video…
Reports about problems to run Google Chrome on Windows started to emerge in early June 2025 on the official Chrome forum. Users claimed that they could not run the Google browser anymore on their Windows devices. Chrome would not start or close itself immediately after start; attempts to fix the issue, e.g., by uninstalling and…
As you may know, I prefer to buy my PC games on Gog. While I do not buy that many anymore, due to a lack of time mostly, I sometimes have the desire to replay a classic game or try a new independent game that I heard about. Gog holds sales year round, but the…
Microsoft confirmed today that Xbox is not dead. In fact, the company announced Xbox consoles, a partnership with AMD, and what sounded like support for PC gaming stores and games on the next Xbox devices. Xbox-chief Sarah Bond made the announcement in a video on YouTube. It is just a minute in total playtime and…
Do you create backups of your email accounts? A popular solution for that is MailStore Home, which is free and cross-platform. The original founder of MailStore Home has created Vanderplanki, which serves the same purpose. Vanderplanki can backup email accounts so that you may read messages offline, search across accounts, and more. It lacked some…
Meta-owned WhatsApp announced new features for the messaging service’s updates tab designed to “help” WhatsApp users find more channels and businesses on the messaging platform. All three features are added to the tab updates in WhatsApp. They are: The primary purpose of these changes is to increase monetization on the platform and thus Meta’s revenue….
Mainstream AI tools rely on large sets of data that they are trained on. This data, often websites, posts, comments and the like, has been created by humans (for the most part). Reports suggest that part of the Web population is shifting towards using AI first for any of their tasks and there are good…
Mozilla released a new version of its open source Firefox web browser today. Firefox 139.0.4 is a point update that addresses security issues and bugs in the browser. The update is already live. Most Firefox installations should receive it automatically, but you can speed up the installation by going to Menu > Help > About…
Reddit users will soon have an option to keep their interactions on the social site private. The company is rolling out a new feature that enables users to hide posts and comments that they made on the site on their profile page. Currently, all posts and comments show up when the page is opened. Anyone…
PC Gaming platform Gog just announced a new addition to its ever-growing arsenal of tools and options for PC gamers. Called Gog One-Click Mod, it integrates the installation of curated mods into the platform. Mods are modifications. These can range from tiny changes, like a modified outfit for a character or a fix for an…