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According to a new Chromium blog post, one of Google‘s central web products has saved users more than 10,000 years of waiting for pages to load this year alone.

The product in question – Core Web Vitals – was launched three years ago to provide metrics about the performance and quality of web pages, in turn giving developers actionable insights for improvements.

Several Facebook posts shared in local community groups are falsely promoting an Argos giveaway that is not real. 

The posts, which have identical text, claim: “Argos is giving Gifts of smartphones, laptops other miscellaneous things at no charge mailed straight to your doorstep [sic]”. It says people can arrange the delivery by completing a “short 20 second form on the next page”.

A spokesperson for Argos confirmed to Full Fact that the offer is not genuine. 

One post appearing in a community group for Liverpool has almost 300 shares, while another post in a group for Mayobridge in Northern Ireland has more than 220 shares. It also appears in groups for Knock Shrine in Ireland, Worthing and Lancing in West Sussex and Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, as well…

The account-sharing crackdown that Netflix announced almost a year ago and started implementing in the spring has yet to scare most account borrowers into paying up. But it probably makes business sense anyway, according to a new survey from MoffettNathanson.

That market-research firm commissioned Publishers Clearing House (yes, the company does things besides run a sweepstakes that sends giant replica checks to people’s front doors) to survey 19,000 Americans in Q3 about their usage of the video-streaming service. The first takeaway: Most Netflix viewers watch by the rules.

A full 77% of respondents say they only use their own account, while 8% sometimes lean on somebody else’s subscription (the report doesn’t get into why), and 14% only watch on other people’s accounts.

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The account-sharing crackdown that Netflix announced almost a year ago and started implementing in the spring has yet to scare most account borrowers into paying up. But it probably makes business sense anyway, according to a new survey from MoffettNathanson.

That market-research firm commissioned Publishers Clearing House (yes, the company does things besides run a sweepstakes that sends giant replica checks to people’s front doors) to survey 19,000 Americans in Q3 about their usage of the video-streaming service. The first takeaway: Most Netflix viewers watch by the rules.

A full 77% of respondents say they only use their own account, while 8% sometimes lean on somebody else’s subscription (the report doesn’t get into why), and 14% only watch on other people’s accounts.

In…