P ersonalized Privacy and Space Internet
Firefox gets personalized privacy reports
By Frederic Lardinois from Tech Crunch
- “…with today’s launch of Firefox 70, Mozilla is also giving you a personalized dashboard that tells you how often Firefox blocked third-party cookies, social media trackers, fingerprinting tools and cryptominers.”
- “The report isn’t exactly front and center in the user experience (though Mozilla tells me it points new users to it in its onboarding workflow). To find it, you have to click on the shield icon in the URL bar.”
- “…while the Chrome team is trying to figure out how to make major changes to the underlying tracking infrastructure while preserving Google’s revenue stream, Firefox and its brethren can opt for pretty strict default settings. It still remains to be seen whether the majority of users actually cares about tracking, but for now, this gives Firefox a clear advantage in this area.”
SpaceX aims to provide internet coverage with Starlink constellation as soon as mid-2020
By Loren Grush from The Verge
- “SpaceX says it plans to begin offering broadband services to customers with its massive internet-from-space initiative, known as Starlink, as early as mid-2020, SpaceNews reports.”
- “Starlink is SpaceX’s proposed constellation of thousands of satellites, which are designed to orbit at low altitudes above the Earth and beam internet coverage to the surface below.”
- “SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Monday night that he was going to send a tweet using the Starlink system. ‘Whoa, it worked!!’ he wrote.”
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