Cookies are data artifacts saved by web browsers on our internet-connected devices. They keep a record of the websites you visit, and in the case of first-party cookies, they're important for certain ...

Tracking users online has long been a core part of how websites deliver targeted ads and personalized content. Traditional ...

Google has an announcement today: It’s not going to do something it has thought about, and tinkered with, for quite some time. Most people who just use the Chrome browser, rather than develop for it ...

All Firefox users on desktop will now be protected by the browser's Total Cookie Protection feature by default. Mozilla calls it the browser's "strongest privacy protection to date," because it ...

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In a blow to Microsoft's idea of having browsers block tracking cookies by default, the working group dealing with the issue at the World Wide Web Consortium has come up with a proposal that bars any ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google’s plan to implement a new Tracking Protection feature in Chrome begins in January with the intention to ...

Mozilla has been courting controversy with its move toward blocking some third-party cookies by default in Firefox. While preventing unvisited websites from setting cookies is undoubtedly good for ...