Kourtnee covers TV streaming services and home entertainment. She previously worked as an entertainment reporter at Showbiz Cheat Sheet, where she wrote about film, television, music, celebrities and ...

Google will replace the feature with a new “tune” icon, which can open up additional privacy-related controls to the visited site. “Replacing the lock icon with a neutral indicator prevents the ...

Do you know what the lock icon in your web browser means? If not, you're far from alone. Google now plans to replace the lock next to the address in Chrome with a variant of the "tune" icon you see ...

Some Internet users are happy to enable their online security of choice and merrily trundle on around the web, trusting that the programs running in the background are keeping them safe from harm. For ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new tune icon will replace it later this year to avoid misleading users about how ‘trustworthy’ websites are ...

Websites with addresses that start with “https” are supposed to provide privacy and security to visitors. After all, the “s” stands for “secure” in HTTPS: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. In fact, ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Google Chrome is probably the most popular browser in the world today, though there are better choices for privacy, but I digress. Google Chrome rose to prominence back in the days Microsoft’s ...