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Privacy Badger: A Free EFF Browser Extension to Block Online Tracking

Monday, September 29, 2025 Read

Smarter than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

Smarter than ‘Ctrl+F’: Linking Directly to Web Page Content syntax https://example.com/page.html#:~:text=[prefix-,]textStart[,textEnd][,-suffix] example https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Fragment/Text_fragments#:~:text=without%20relying%20on%20the%20presence%20of%20IDs

Wednesday, December 25, 2024 Read

LocalStorage vs. IndexedDB vs. Cookies vs. OPFS vs. WASM-SQLite

LocalStorage vs. IndexedDB vs. Cookies vs. OPFS vs. WASM-SQLite The available Storage APIs in a modern Browser Cookies Cookies store small pieces of key-value data that are mainly used for session management, personalization, and tracking. Cookies can have several security settings like a time-to-live or the domain attribute to share the cookies between several subdomains. LocalStorage LocalStorage is only suitable for storing small amounts of data that need to persist across sessions and it is limited by a 5MB storage cap. Storing complex data is only possible by transforming it into a string for example with JSON.stringify(). The API is not asynchronous which means if fully blocks your JavaScript process while doing stuff. Therefore running heavy operations on it might block your UI from rendering.

Friday, November 29, 2024 Read

What happens after you type a URL in the browser and press Enter?

Sunday, July 18, 2021 Read

Why do browser user-agent strings always include Mozilla/5.0?

Why do browser user-agent strings always include Mozilla/5.0? What does “Mozilla/5.0” in user agent string signify? History of the browser user-agent string Quick answer Because website developers may output special features when they detect a browser (Mozilla in this case). When other browsers also support those good features, they try to mimic Mozilla so the site outputs the same content instead of a degraded version.

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 Read