Historians really figured out the platform this year, and we’re all smarter for it.

We are all in the throes of an Amazon addiction, but some of us are in deep. Some 71 percent of Americans are Amazon Prime...

The haters have spoken: In less than a week, YouTube Rewind 2018 — its year-in-review mashup — has registered the most dislikes of any video on the platform. As of Thursday (Dec. 13) morning, YouTube Rewind 2018 had notched 9.9 million dislikes after debuting Dec. 6. That pushed it above the previous record holder: Justin Bieber’s 2010 “Baby,” currently with 9.84 million dislikes.

Vox has an explainer today about how YouTube automatically steers users toward deranged and conspiratorial videos, even if the users have started out with perfectly ordinary interests. This has been explained before, but it keeps needing to be explained because it’s so incomprehensible in normal human terms: YouTube’s algorithms, which are built to keep people watching as many videos and video ads as possible, have apparently followed that instruction to the conclusion, as Zeynep Tufekci wrote in the New York Times, “that people are drawn to content that is more extreme than what they started with—or to incendiary content in general.”

When a visitor finds your blog, you usually want them to stick (and click) around. Here are 13 ways to lower your blog's bounce rate, and why it matters.

Google’s annual Year in Search is more than a digital record of the events, stories and phenomena that captured our attention over 12 months. It’s a reckoning, or computation, on what mattered to society in any given year — and sometimes even signal where it’s headed.

The year's last release of Firefox bundles together goodies for all, including multi-tab management in the interface, new CSS features, devtools improvements, better privacy protections, add-ons updates, and more.

The underloved social network will now close in April

WordPress is releasing a new version allowing users to easily use it as a full-featured CMS out of the box, not just as a blogging platform.

Far-right commentator and Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes has been kicked off YouTube on Monday, marking the latest social media platform to remove the Proud Boys founder.

Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet.

A study, albeit from competitor DuckDuckGo, finds that Google search results can vary significantly.

Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless.

Along with billing warning screens.

Suppliers, fearing police crackdown, decide opioid is too high-risk to trade

The ban includes explicit sexual content and nudity with some exceptions.

How does a powerful, innovative behemoth megacorporation repeatedly fail at its most basic task: running a website?

Christopher Wylie, who helped found the voter-profiling firm, said that clothing preferences had been key to helping “Steve Bannon build his insurgency.”

It's been a big year for Reddit. The internet's largest privately held social site posted its 2018 year in review on Tuesday, revealing new statistics on the massive volume of content its users produced and the range of topics they covered. So far in 2018, 153 million posts have been made to Reddit, with those posts getting 1.2 billion comments. (Little-known fact: Redditors type in 50,000 words per minute.)

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Also ecosystems, frictions, fires and burgers.

When you search the web with Ecosia, the profits from the search ad revenue go to support tree planting programs.

The first time I truly took a break from social media was in 2015, at a summer camp for burned-out adults called "Camp Grounded." There were three rules: Take a camp name of your choosing, like Luna or Huckleberry, avoid talking about "W," meaning work, and ditch all electronics at the door. At an arrival ceremony deep in the California Redwoods, volunteers in hazmat suits zipped up our devices into brown bags, leaving them locked away in a so-called "Robot Decontamination Area."

"No company could take on such a financial risk."

In our frenetic age, audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion. But this intimacy can become manipulative.

A homeless man and couple who crowdfunded thousands have been charged with conspiracy and theft.

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The infinite retailer appears to be ushering untold numbers of stealth brands into your life, even as it plans to take over the East Coast. If you like Ween Charm, you’ll love Austin Mill!

YouTube starting back-to-back two ads for fewer interruptions so, you will watch videos for longer. As if pre-roll advertisements on YouTube aren’t annoying enough, you have to tolerate ads in the middle of the videos! Well, not anymore! Now, you’ll be able to watch the whole video without any interference throughout. YouTube is considering this new idea where you will get two back-to-back ads you can skip when the video begins. These are called “Ad-pods” back-to-back ads.

In 2015, with Internet Explorer a dead browser walking, Microsoft stepped back into the web browser wars with the speedy new Microsoft Edge. Built around a revamped and tuned-up version of the engine that powered Microsoft's web browsers since the late 1990s, Edge was meant to challenge the Google's hegemonic Chrome, potentially sparking a new browser war from which surfers everywhere would benefit.

Pittsburgh shooter Robert Bowers regularly posted anti-Semitic content on the social media site

Our sensitivity to ads is a major public issue.

CEO Sundar Pichai thinks the search engine should be willing to work with Chinese censors. Will employees go along with the plan?

Friday's plunge sends Yelp to a 52-week low and puts the stock on pace for its worst day of trading since going public in 2012.

One of the mysteries of Facebook is that whenever public sentiment about the company feels most mixed, it delivers smashing results for Wall Street that keep any social consequences from depressing the company’s share price. This was true even during the depths of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which began with a major price drop and ended with Facebook at a new all-time high, $209.94 a share, ahead of its earnings announcement in mid-July.