Under the contracts, content providers featured on the "Channel Bar" of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser were required to promote the Microsoft browser exclusively on their main Internet pages.

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Last week, the internet giant put forth a poll asking users to vote on new privacy controls lowering the bar to accessing user profile information.

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The Yandex browser features a merged search and address bar, which can be used both to surf and to search the internet.

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The bill would also bar sales of any surveillance-applicable hardware or software to countries that restrict Internet use.

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