We live in a fast-paced world filled with people that absolutely love to take pictures of themselves and share them with the world. They also love to chat… nonstop… all the time… as if the world would stop spinning if, for one second, they failed to stay in touch with others. What would happen if the power of instant messaging collided with the self-expression of the selfie?

There’s one true fact in technology – you can never ever have too much storage space. It doesn’t matter if it’s a megabyte, gigabyte or petabyte, we’re going to fill it up with millions of photos of cute kittens and videos of our last birthday party that no-one will ever watch. Sensing this reality, the giant Chinese Internet service Tencent has decided to step up and make the world an offer it can’t refuse.

Cats, along with a host of other topics, seem to have taken over the Internet at times, which is great… unless you don’t like cats or whatever else the current trending topic seems to be. Fortunately, you can now remove unwanted content from your social media streams without having to take the extreme step of unfriending/unfollowing someone.

[UPDATE Nov 29th: this extension is now injecting adware. AVOID!!!] Every been frustrated by a country blocked website or video? Why do they even do that stuff? It’s stupid. We’ve featured a number of ways to get round the problem over the years, and thankfully the tools keep coming. Maybe one day the content owners will wake up, get a life and realize that the whole situation is ridiculous? Yeah and maybe pigs will perambulate across the sky.

People have become rightly concerned about the level of government intrusion into our private matters, especially when it comes to phone calls, emails and web browsing habits. Most everyone agrees that a degree of security is necessary when dealing with mad people and their fanaticism, but the problem with unfettered surveillance is such license can be abused and misused in ways that were never intended. For example.