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Disconnect is a partly open source [1] browser extension and mobile app designed to stop non-consensual third party trackers, [2] and providing private web search and private web browsing. [3] On mobile, it is available for Android and iPhone. It was developed by Brian Kennish and Casey Oppenheim.
Chrome Web Store was publicly unveiled in December 2010, [2] and was opened on February 11, 2011, with the release of Google Chrome 9.0. [3] A year later it was redesigned to "catalyze a big increase in traffic, across downloads, users, and total number of apps". [4]
In November 2020, Microsoft Edge Store and Chrome web store [15] were infiltrated with fraudulent add-ons posing as various legitimate VPN browser add-ons, including NordVPN and AdGuard's VPN add-on. [16] Subsequently Microsoft and Google were alerted and actions were taken to remove the fake add-ons in the various browser stores. [17]
In October 2018, Google announced a major future update to Chrome's extension API, known as "Manifest V3" (in reference to the manifest file contained within extensions). Manifest V3 is intended to modernize the extension architecture and improve the security and performance of the browser; it adopts declarative APIs to "decrease the need for ...
Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL Google Desktop: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows: Integrates with the main Google search engine page. As of September 14, 2011, Google has discontinued this product. Freeware ISYS Search Software: Windows: ISYS:Desktop search software. Proprietary (14-day trial) KRunner: Linux: Locate32: Windows
Pale Moon's default search engine is DuckDuckGo and it uses the IP-API service instead of Google for geolocation. [15] The browser is known to be lightweight on resource usage. [16] [17] Pale Moon has no telemetry or data collection. [10] [9]
Hola is a freemium web and mobile application which provides a form of VPN service to its users through a peer-to-peer network. It also uses peer-to-peer caching.When a user accesses certain domains that are known to use geo-blocking, the Hola application redirects the request to go through the computers and Internet connections of other users in non-blocked areas, thereby circumventing the ...
Google Chrome Apps, or commonly just Chrome Apps, were a certain type of non-standardized web application that ran on the Google Chrome web browser. Chrome apps could be obtained from the Chrome Web Store along with various free and paid apps, extensions , and themes.