Skip to content

2025

New Privacy and Security Features in macOS 13 Ventura

macOS Ventura was released this week, and the Apple users among us may be interested in the improvements it brings to your personal privacy and security. We always recommend running the most up-to-date version of your operating system available. Updates add privacy and security improvements all the time—and macOS Ventura is no exception.

How To Monetize Your Guest WiFi Network

Guest WiFi

You can monetize your guest WiFi with the help of a guest WiFi solution. A guest WiFi solution basically creates a space for advertising over the guest WiFi. This space can be used to display promotions from 3rd parties or in-house promotions. Customers can access guest WiFi through a branded captive portal. To do so, customers authenticate themselves with their social IDs in exchange for Internet access. This helps venues validate customer information and then build relevant promotions based on that information.

Move Fast and Break Things

Mark Zuckerberg does not look comfortable on stage. Yet, there he was proclaiming that “the future is private”. If someone has to tell you that they care about your privacy, they probably don’t.

Privacy-Preserving Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

"No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128.

Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release of Firefox, in an experimental trial you have to opt out of manually. This "Privacy-Preserving Attribution" (PPA) API adds another tool to the arsenal of tracking features that advertisers can use, which is thwarted by traditional content blocking extensions.