Not all cookies have explicitly malicious intent. Most simply help a website work properly or let the advertisers that help fund websites figure out which ads would interest you the most. However, the ...

In March of 2005, ad technology company United Virtualities boasted that it could track Web users through a "pie," or persistent identification element," that would remain on people's computers even ...

European regulators start pursuing companies it believes are breaching the regulation and currently Oracle and Salesforce are in the crosshairs. The use of third-party cookies for ad tracking has ...

An ad-serving firm analyzed 20 advertisers and more than 5 billion impressions in fourth-quarter 2017, and found 64% of their tracking cookies were either blocked or deleted by web browsers. The ...

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 ...

Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox browser, has rolled out a feature called Total Cookie Protection as part of its Enhanced Tracking Protection "Strict Mode" that promises to stifle cross-site tracking ...

Remember Apple’s flock of birds swooping around, spying on users as they browse the web, a thinly disguised attack on Google’s ongoing Chrome tracking nightmare. Well, despite promises to the contrary ...

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Mozilla has further beefed up anti-tracking measures in its Firefox browser. In a blog post yesterday it announced that Firefox 86 has an extra layer of anti-cookie tracking built into the enhanced ...