Dark patterns in UX design and how to avoid them
Ten dark patterns in UX design, from confirmshaming to the roach motel, what each one costs you in trust, and honest alternatives to use instead.
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Ten dark patterns in UX design, from confirmshaming to the roach motel, what each one costs you in trust, and honest alternatives to use instead.
Last Wednesday, The Intercept published an expose on the NSA's XKeyscore program. Along with information on the breadth and scale of the NSA's metadata collection, The Intercept revealed how the NSA relies on unencrypted cookie data to identify users. As The Intercept says: "The NSA’s ability to...
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You might have already heard about our effort to unify native Firefox Developer tools (DevTools) and Firebug. We’ve been working hard to port all favorite Firebug features into native DevTools, ...
Mozilla is excited to announce that Webmaker for Android emerges from beta today. You can download the new version of our free, open source app from Google
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“Get me to page 1 of Google, while emailing our customers a bi-weekly newsletter, engaging influencers on Twitter, maintaining a captive Facebook audience, capturing new leads, and putting out 3 blog posts a week.” Harsh? Yes. Familiar? Definitely. Everything a Non-Marketer Needs to Take a…
pyscript.net Supporting open source and creating tools that enable people to do more with less are why I joined Anaconda almost eight years ago. Today,…
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Qt 6.4 is now available and comes with a lot of new modules, features, and improvements. And Web Assembly is now a fully supported platform!
AWS Lambda Web Functions is a serverless compute primitive that runs your HTTP framework natively, delivering fast, consistent responses through multi-concurrent execution and automated global distribution.
The origins of Tailwind and how it is framed to solve the proposed issues of CSS
Security has always been critical to the web, but challenges involved in site migration have inhibited HTTPS adoption for several years. In the interest of a safer web for all, at Google we've worked alongside many others across the online ecosystem to better understand and address these challenges, resulting in real…
ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. Editor’s note: An ...
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Cloudflare Zaraz now can also help you with gathering and managing consent. With this new tool, you can easily collect user’s consent preferences on your website, using a consent modal, and apply your consent policy on third-party tools you load via Cloudflare Zaraz
Better Auth is joining Vercel. We're joining to accelerate our work on open-source auth and securing agent workflows.
Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is excited to release Mozilla Firefox 4 for Android. Firefox delivers an intu
Recent months have seen an uptick in reports of JavaScript malware that hides in image files.
We are excited to announce real-time encoding, allowing videos to be encoded while they are still uploading and effectively making encoding 150 times faster!
How to ensure updates and messages are communicated in an inclusive way.
Xiaofeng Zheng, Tsinghua University and Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology; Jian Jiang, University of California, Berkeley; Jinjin Liang, Tsinghua University and Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology; Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua National…
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.