Take a look at your fingertips. There you have a whirling maze of lines, and when you touch any surface, you leave your unique fingerprint on it. It’s the same with your web browser – even though you can’t see it, every move you make online leaves a virtual fingerprint. Digital fingerprints Just like your...

Opera is yet again partnering with Yat, the company behind the emoji system that allows people to ditch boring weblinks and use emojis instead of letters and words.   Opera users, who are the first ones on the web to be able to access emoji-only-based web addresses and register their unique strings of emojis as their...

Do you know what a VPN actually changes in your internet browsing? What it changes is exactly why you absolutely should be using a VPN, though it’s not obvious at first glance. If you still don’t know what a VPN is, you can read about it here.  IP address encryption When you use a VPN...

Losing our tempers while gaming isn’t just the stuff of memes—it’s a pressing issue that many gamers struggle with. A recent survey found that more than two-thirds of gamers in (UK 65% / US 67%) get angry, frustrated and even irate when they lose, more so when poor Internet connections are a contributing factor. And...

As the web has grown, so has the marketing sector. Advertisements, while still present in newspapers and television, have also become a permanent part of the online landscape whether we like it or not. In fact, we’ve become so used to online ads that we barely register them, even while they take up our time...

Consider how much of your life revolves around the internet, and how much private information you share online. Do you know how your data is used and who sees it? Every move you make on the web leaves a trace, just like a fingerprint in the real world. In fact, the term browser fingerprinting refers...