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What is cache size in Google Drive?   The cache size in Google Drive is the amount of data that google drive can temporarily store in your device's internal storage. Cache in google drive reduce the loading speed of images, PDFs, videos and other multimedia files. Caches are the temporary files stored in your device in different formats.  Although google drive is a cloud based service, but it needs some data to be stored in the user's device for fast loading of the app and files. When you open an image in google drive for the first time, you will notice it that takes some time to load the image. But when you open the image for next time, you will notice that loading speed of the image has been reduced.  Caches are stored continuously in your device while using the app. Caches must be cleared within a period of time. If it is not cleared, then the app may not work properly. Sometimes, google drive may stop working or responding. There is no need to clear cache whenever you...

How to remove favicons from search results of duckduckgo?  If you are little bit concerned about your online privacy then you must had heard about the duckduckgo search engine. DuckDuckGo claims to be the best search engine in regards of searcher's privacy and security.It claims that it doesn't store any private information of a searcher like cookies, ip addresses, passwords and other logs.Even browsers like chrome, mozilla and Yahoo allow  their users to use duckduckgo search engine as an extension. Nowadays, you can easily change your default search engine settings in popular browsers like chrome.  Getting back to the history of duckduckgo. DuckDuckGo is an initiative by Gabriel Weinberg. At the beginning, he was the only investor in duckduckgo. In 2011, Union Square Ventures and some other investors started investing in it. In 2021, duckduckgo set a new record of 104,910,079 daily searches. On an average,  97,653,174 queries are searched per day in 2021....

What is Lite mode reset? Almost 90% of internet users prefers chrome(a web browser) for browsing. It has a lot of unique and helpful features for browsing. One of them is the Lite mode. It saves user data while searching in the internet.  Lite Mode Reset is a feature of Chrome browser that is used to delete the data saving history as well as the list of visited sites. New statistics will be automatically recorded after resetting your light mode statistics. If you don't want to record any statistics, turn off the lite mode. Lite Mode Reset also protects your privacy by deleting your histor y.  How lite mode saves your data ?  Lite mode compresses the webpage and ultimately consumes less data to load the website in your browser. Some of the user's traffic passed through google servers. Google can manipulate the webpages you see. Google servers make the website simpler for faster loading.  Some of the images might appear blurry. Extra animations are also removed. W...

How to bookmark a website in duckduckgo browser?  If you are tired of searching the same content again and again, then bookmarking that site is the best solution for you. You must have heard the term bookmark before. Bookmaking a website or a part of it enables you to see the content of the site without searching.  Bookmark is a feature of web browsers which allows you to see the content of your most visited sites without searching the  keyword. Almost every browser have a feature to bookmark a site.  Urls of sites which are bookmarked are stored in the folder named Bookmarks. In Internet Explorer(a web browser), bookmarks are also called "Favourites" which means the sites you like the most.  Steps to bookmark a website in duckduckgo browser app : Step 1: Open duckduckgo browser in your android device. Open the website that you want to bookmark. For ex - open facebook.  Step 2: Click on the three vertical dots on the top right corner of your screen. A small...

Why DuckDuckGo is named as DuckDuckGo?  DuckDuckGo is a search engine designed for searcher's privacy and security. DuckDuckGo is ranked as 6th most popular search engine on the basis of popularity (data collected from an  article in Wikipedia ) .  DuckDuckGo search engine is designed using programming languages like perl, JavaScript and python. This search engine does not save any personal information of a searcher for any commercial purposes.Unlike other search engines, it does not collect your cookies, ip address, passwords and other important information.  DuckDuckGo announced that "Google tracks you. We don't. "  This is their marketing strategy.  The name DuckDuckGo is derived from the children's game Duck, Duck, Goose. Gabriel Weinberg named it because he likes it. There was not any specific reason for placing the name "DuckDuckGo."Unlike Google, it doesn't have any interesting story behind it's name.  DuckDuckGo is designed by Gabriel Wei...

What does fireproof site means in DuckDuckGo? When you fireproof a website while using DuckDuckGo, your information such as login details are saved so that you can remain logged in despite of clearing cache and history. If you want to remain logged in any website , you can fireproof that website.Any type of activities in the  site which is fireproof is saved and doesn't vanishes on clearing the history data.   DuckDuckGo is among the most popular search engines. DuckDuckGo is known worldwide for its privacy features. DuckDuckGo provides the most trusted privacy to their users. Even,google adds the option of DuckDuckGo search engine in their chrome browser.  As people are becoming aware about their privacy,DuckDuckGo is gaining popularity day by day. It doesn't trace it's user and it doesn't create any user profile. It doesn't share your important information such as ip address,location information,device information and so on.  How to fireproof a website in DuckDuck...

With the outbreak of the covid-19, influence of technology has been increased in our daily lives. In these days, video conferencing act as a boon for mankind. There are many apps for video conferencing.  Many smartphones have inbuilt feature of video conferencing but they have a limit to the number of people that can join the video conference. Here Google meet becomes a useful app and asset for everyone. This app becomes useful for schools,colleges and many businesses.  Google meet allows a user  to host a meeting for free but there is a limit. You can add upto 100 participants and you can host the meeting  only for 60 minutes. But you may realize that data consumption is very high in google meet. To solve this problem, data saver mode is also available in google meet.  Steps to enable data saver in google meet app : 1.Open google meet in your android device.  2.Click on the menu icon in the top left corner of your screen.  3.Now,Click on the "settings...

How to stop unwanted notifications from chrome browser in Android We all are aware about the notifications.Notifications are sent by our browsers or apps that we use in our daily life.Social media apps, games and even our mobile operating system sends notifications to make us aware about our running processes in our android devices.Sometimes they become annoying.Many websites sends notifications of 18+ content.  Why notifications are necessary?  1.Notifications makes us aware about the ongoing process of our android devices.If we are downloading any file from internet then notifications shows the downloading progress of our file.  2. Notifications ensures the security of our android devices.When any website is using our camera then notifications makes us aware about the camera status (whether it is on or off).  Why you got unwanted notifications from chrome browser in android?  When we visit websites, some websites asks for the permission to send notifications.M...