If You Are Not Paying, You Are the Product. It is an old line by now, but it has not stopped being true. A weather app, a flashlight app, a game that costs nothing to download — someone still has to pay the engineers, the servers, and the app store's cut. When the price tag [...]

That Free Extension Might Be Reading Every Page You Open. A coupon finder. A grammar checker. A screenshot tool. Small browser extensions solve small, specific problems, and most people install a handful without much thought — a quick click on a browser's extension store, and it is running in the background from that point forward. [...]