Mozilla announced that it is rolling out Total Cookie Protection to the Firefox browser, its most powerful cookie blocking technology ever. The new technology blocks third-party cookie trackers, ...

It has been several years now since websites started pestering users to accept their cookies, and some people have been driven to download browser extensions to avoid the constant nagging. Now, the ...

Cookies are files created by websites when you visit them. They can be somewhat helpful, as they save your browsing information, and they allow sites you use often to keep you signed in, remember your ...

After years of seeing other browsers improve privacy features, Google is now offering a native Chrome feature to block cookies from being accessed by third-party clients. With this feature, it will ...

The European Union's GDPR was a double-edged sword that protected privacy not just for the region but for the rest of the world but at the expense of some inconveniences. Website administrators had a ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Vivaldi’s logic for the new feature, affectionately called “Cookie Crumbler,” is that while giving users control over how they’re tracked is good, doing so through a pop-up “leads to clicking ‘allow’ ...