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Everybody has to make a choice on how much convenience they're willing to sacrifice for digital privacy. Signal and Telegram are two popular messaging platforms appealing to different users on this spectrum. Privacy advocates almost unequivocally promote Signal, while Telegram has many more common users.

Whether to prefer the features or no-compromise encryption is entirely up to you, but making a choice is impossible without a thorough comparison. Chances are, that after considering all the features of these messaging apps, you'll find a use for both just on different occasions.

The internet isn't as free as it used to be. You and I might live where it's relatively open, but digital borders are set up in quite a few places online. One interesting example is Egypt.

While Labeled by Freedom House as one of the least free places for internet access, it still is a top holiday destination. That's why accessing geo-restricted sites is relevant not just for journalists and political activists but for travelers as well.

A proxy server is an easy alternative to a VPN that can perform most of the functions of the latter. It’s a server that stands between your device and the destination server, taking your connection requests and forwarding them in your name.

Destination servers in almost all cases see the proxy server as the originator of the request. As such, proxies are widely used in various, mostly business-related applications whenever privacy, security, location changing, and several other factors are at play.

The 502 Bad Gateway error shows up when a server can’t get a good response from another server. It means something went wrong between the proxy server and the upstream server.

This HTTP error matters because visitors can get annoyed when a page doesn’t load. Site owners risk losing traffic and trust. It also hurts your spot in the search results.

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SafeSearch is a tool that hides adult, violent, or explicit content from search results. It’s made to help keep things cleaner, especially for kids.

But sometimes, you want to see the full results. Maybe SafeSearch is hiding normal pages by mistake. Maybe you’re researching for school or trying to fix some web filters.

Here we will show you how to turn off SafeSearch, even if it’s locked. We’ll go over different devices, like a Windows PC, Android phone, or iPhone, and search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

You’ll also learn about some problems that might stop you from changing the SafeSearch setting.

Once you get a quality VPN service, you want to use it everywhere - on your smartphone, laptop, TV, console, and all other devices. In such cases, it might be easier to install a VPN on your router than on each device separately.

The configuration varies by router model, but all newer ones support VPN clients. Once you set up a VPN on your router, all devices (even those that might not support it natively) are protected. If you're at least a bit tech-savvy, the instructions below shouldn't be too hard to follow.

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