When you browse the web, websites often store bits of information in your browser called cookies. Although not inherently dangerous, some websites use cookies to track you. Here's how to disable them ...

Cookies are data artifacts saved by web browsers on our internet-connected devices. They keep a record of the websites you visit, and in the case of first-party cookies, they're important for certain ...

Google has an announcement today: It’s not going to do something it has thought about, and tinkered with, for quite some time. Most people who just use the Chrome browser, rather than develop for it ...

All Firefox users on desktop will now be protected by the browser's Total Cookie Protection feature by default. Mozilla calls it the browser's "strongest privacy protection to date," because it ...

In its latest attempt to prevent online tracking, Mozilla has turned on a new cookie-blocking tool by default in the Firefox browser. The new tool, "Total Cookie Protection," aims to prevent ad-tech ...

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 ...

Mozilla has been courting controversy with its move toward blocking some third-party cookies by default in Firefox. While preventing unvisited websites from setting cookies is undoubtedly good for ...

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 ...

Google on Monday said it was ditching its long mooted plan to block tracking "cookies" on its Chrome browser after years of resistance from online publishers and questions from regulators. The ...