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Illustration: Artem Mashchenko (Shutterstock)YouTube is cracking down on users determined to evade its ads and has given some of them an ultimatum: Turn off your ad blocker or subscribe to YouTube Premium. Ad-blocking users who don’t opt for either of those options won’t be able to watch videos on YouTube at all.Why Banning TikTok Won’t Protect Our PrivacyThe measure is part of a limited global test being carried out by the company to ensure advertisers continue to get the most views for their money, Bleeping Computer…

Photo: Maor_Winetrob (Shutterstock)Beleaguered password manager LastPass has announced yet another serious security screwup and, this time, it may be the final straw for some users. For months, the company has been periodically providing updates about a nasty data breach that occurred last August. At the time, LastPass revealed that a cybercriminal had managed to worm its way into the company’s development environment and steal some source code but claimed there was “no evidence” that any user data had been compromised as…

I want to believe.Photo: Dzelat (Shutterstock)The Federal Bureau of Investigation took a break from hunting serial killers this week to post a public service announcement: if you’re not using an ad blocker, what are you doing?According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, criminals are using ads in search engine results like Google and Bing to impersonate brands. These ads send unsuspecting users off to phony websites that look identical to the pages people are actually searching for, where they are then be subjected…

Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images)If you were planning on storing your precious codes in LastPass, the freemium password manager, my personal advice to you would be: maybe think again on that one. And if you do use it, maybe consider an alternative. Why? Well, the password manager just got hacked. Again. That makes twice six months. Not great for a company that’s supposed to keep your digital keys secure! In a blog post published Wednesday, LastPass admitted that, during a recent incident, a hacker was able to access…