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(Image credit: DuckDuckGo) In addition to its search engine and mobile browser, DuckDuckGo has announced the beta launch of DuckDuckGo for Mac with DuckDuckGo for Windows coming soon. Just like its mobile app, DuckDuckGo for Mac is an all-one-privacy solution for everyday web browsing that doesn’t require complicated settings to protect your online privacy and data. We’re looking at how our...

DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused internet search engine whose decision to down-rank “Russian disinformation” sites due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upset many fans who come to it for uncensored searches and privacy. The engine will also be promoting quick links from the top searched sites that “highlight quality information.” DuckDuckGo’s CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, made the announcement on ...

Anna Wood says: The aim of a business blog is to encourage people to engage with the business, for example to sign up to a webinar or download a marketing document. As well as this, it should help your company’s website to rank higher in search engine rankings. Here are my top tips for managing a successful blog. 1. Every post should be valuable to a human reader, so it must be useful or insi...

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Welcome to the Daily Crunch for Tuesday, April 12, 2022! This week, the Found team released one of our favorite episodes of the podcast. In it, Jordan and Darrell spent an hour with Dylan Field, the founder of Figma. They dug into the journey of how a 20-year-old...

In February, Facebook, rebranded as Meta, stated that its revenue in 2022 is anticipated to reduce by $10 billion due to steps undertaken by Apple to enhance user privacy on its mobile operating system. More specifically, Meta attributed this loss to a new AppTrackingTransparency feature that requires apps to request permission from users before tracking them across other apps and websites or...

WordPress announced a decision to formally reassess the highly controversial WebP by Default feature WordPress announced that it is reconsidering its proposal to roll out automatic WebP image generation because of the passionate opposition received for the new feature. The announcement noted that they will formally research the suggestions put forth by the WordPress community in order to make...

No matter how many Masters you’ve attended, on each visit you come away with an appreciation for something that previously eluded you. A different vantage point of a hole. A salty or savory concession snack. A merch offering that you couldn’t resist. This year, I fell for a 68-page booklet. Its official name — everything at the Masters has an official name — is the Spectator Guide, and it’s d...

NEW YORK (AP) — Some vendors on Etsy say they are halting sales of their items on the site for a week to protest a hike in the fees the crafts e-commerce marketplace charges them. Starting Monday, Etsy sellers must pay a 6.5 percent commission on each transaction, up from the 5 percent in place since 2018. A protest organizer, Kristi Cassidy, said thousands of Etsy sellers — a fraction of the...

On Sunday, April 10, Parag Agrawal, CEO of Twitter tweeted Elon Musk will no longer be joining the social media company’s board of directors. This comes less than one week after he was offered a seat after becoming Twitter’s largest shareholder. Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here. pic.twitter.com/lfrXACavvk — Parag Agrawal (@...

Some vendors on Etsy say they are halting sales of their items on the site for a week to protest a hike in the fees the crafts ecommerce marketplace charges them. Starting Monday, Etsy sellers must pay a 6.5% commission on each transaction, up from the 5% in place since 2018. A protest organizer, Kristi Cassidy, said thousands of Etsy sellers — a fraction of the 5.3 million vendors on the s...