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Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
Question from Linda: I hate it when a website I’m visiting pops up a little box asking me to let them know my location.
I always click “Don’t allow” every time I get that message, but I’d really like to stop receiving them in the first place.
Can you tell me what I need to do to stop websites from even asking for my location? [Read more…]
Our friends over at Bleeping Computer have alerted their readers to a very dangerous Chrome Update related scam that’s making the rounds right now.
I won’t go into the details here because Bleeping Computer explains how the scam works much better than I ever could.
I recommend that you click over there and read it if you’re interested in the details.
If not, just remember this: Never attempt to update Chrome or any other browser via a third-party website. Always install any pending browser updates manually using the update tool that’s actually built into the browser. [Read more…]
Question from Debbie: How do I get Chrome to search for an image in a new tab and not go to Google Lens?
I used to be able to right-click and open up a new tab for the image search. But it doesn’t work like that anymore.
Now I get taken to Google Lens and all I get is prices for the clothing similar to what was in the picture. Very frustrating! [Read more…]
I don’t know about you, but I hate it when a video begins playing automatically just as soon as I load a web page into my browser.
Plenty of sites allow you to toggle a setting to disable autoplaying videos, but most of them don’t.
And even in the ones that do, it’s a major hassle having to wade through a site’s settings in order to figure out how to disable autoplaying videos, especially on sites that you don’t visit all that often. [Read more…]
A new report from the security firm Otto details a very serious data breach situation that’s playing out daily with millions of unsuspecting computer users, and it’s quite possible that you are affected by it.
Otto’s research discovered that both Chrome’s “Enhanced Spellcheck” feature and Microsoft’s popular “Microsoft Editor: Spelling & Grammar Checker” browser extension for Edge capture every bit of data you enter into any web form and transmit it back to Google and Microsoft’s servers. [Read more…]