THESE days, with every webpage comes an annoying message about cookies but the UK is now planning to get rid of “pointless” web cookie requests as part of its post-Brexit plans. We've put together a ...

Clearing SFGate-related browser cookies and cached files (and then restarting your broswer) can sometimes take care of display or login problems with SFGate. Here's how to do that. 1. In Mozilla ...

With Firefox 86, Mozilla prevents websites from sharing cookie files and profiling your internet browsing history. Mozilla’s Firefox is doubling down on blocking internet cookies from tracking your ...

Each time a computer visits a website, the site puts a cookie on the computer's hard disk. A cookie essentially gives information to the website, such as browsing history, personal preferences and ...

Mozilla has rolled out a privacy protection it calls "Total Cookie Protection" as the default for the Firefox browser on Windows, Mac and Linux. The idea behind Total Cookie Protection is that cookies ...

Hi all.<BR><BR>OK, so I'm working on a site here at work that uses cookies to track a bunch of data about the user. I was of the opinion that this was not a particularly robust way to handle things, ...

MSN Hotmail users, guard your cookies. A simple technique for accessing Microsoft's free e-mail service without a password is in the wild and apparently being exploited. The trick involves capturing a ...

PayPal has filed a patent application for a novel method that can identify when "super-cookie" is stolen, which could improve the cookie-based authentication mechanism and limit account takeover ...