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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

So for many reasons, I'm done with Firefox. I'm trying to replicate some functionality with Safari and I've got adblocker and ghostery in place and working great, but I still want to block all but a ...

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 ...

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Mozilla has effectively postponed Firefox’s controversial third-party cookie-blocking policy for several months. Yesterday, the open-source developer announced it was collaborating with a new ...

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 ...

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 ...