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There are a lot of things that make browsing the internet painful instead of pleasant, and cookie banners or consent forms are easily at the top of that list. Almost every website you visit greets you ...

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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Cookies are small files that websites store on your phone or computer to help them remember information about you and your visit. In this way, ...

If you're serious about web browser security, you might want to consider blocking all cookies. It's more work, but the result will give you much more privacy and security. Jack Wallen shows you how.

The latest release of Mozilla's Firefox browser will now block third-party tracking cookies by default. The privacy protection arrived Tuesday in Firefox 67.0.1. "When it comes to privacy, default ...

Unlike its browser competitors, Firefox will soon start blocking tracking cookies by default in the name of consumer privacy. Web tracking has long been in the cross-hairs of privacy advocates, who ...

What you do on the internet is being tracked. Almost every webpage you visit has trackers that log where you go and what you do while you're there. Third-party ads often contain tracking cookies that ...

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives users more control over how a website can track their browsing activity using cookies. However, as Vivaldi points out, many ...

Last fall, Opera introduced Opera Touch for iOS — a solid alternative to Safari on iPhone, optimized for one-handed use. Today, the company is rolling out a notable new feature to this app: cookie ...

Starting today, with the release of Safari 13.1 and through updates to the Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) privacy feature, Apple now blocks all third-party cookies in Safari by default. The ...