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Brave Browser: A Faster, Safer and Rewarding Browser

There are tonnes of browsers in the market viz. Chrome, Chromium, Safari, Firefox, Edge to just name a few. Google Chrome enjoys the largest share of users among all Web browsers. Google Chrome is based on the Google backed open source project called Chromium. In recent years, we have experienced that more and more browsers are adopting the chromium platform.  Overview Brave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser. It blocks ads and website trackers, and provides a way for users to send cryptocurrency contributions in the form of Basic Attention Tokens to websites and content creators. Features Faster It blocks network calls for trackers, ads and other monitoring scripts resulting in a safer and faster web browsing experience.  It blocks ads from youtube and other web pages leading to faster load of the page and saves time when you are watching video on youtube. Safer  It blocks all trackers and scripts Fe...

Get access to everyone's Aadhaar data at Rs 500--A Tribune Report

Time and again UDAI(Unique Identification Authority of India) has been asserting that our Aadhaar data is secure and people of India can rest assured about the protection of our personal and biometric data. We have seen security flaws surfacing on the Internet over alleged data breach of Aadhaar and again Tribune has published about the existence of major security breach happening on daily basis. Our Aadhaar data, which is supposed to be highly secure in the hands of UIDAI is available to anyone who can pay Rs. 500. According to Tribune, people are approached via WhatsApp for the service using which you are provided the portal and the username & password to use the portal. Using this service you can feed Aadhaar number and you will be able to download all personal details. This service is being provided at the mere amount of Rs. 500. Not only this, if you pay Rs. 300 more, you will be able to download the Aadhaar card also. The government of India is trying to ma...