For most internet users, cookie notices are not a feature. They are an obstacle. It can feel like every website has a pop-up ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

With yesterday's release of Firefox 69, Mozilla has started blocking third-party tracking cookies by default as part of their Enhanced Tracking Protection feature. Not to be outdone by Firefox, Google ...

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 ...

From today Firefox users who update to the latest version of the browser will find a pro-privacy setting flipped for them on desktop and Android smartphones, assuming they didn’t already have the anti ...

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 ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Apple on Tuesday released a major update to its Safari Intelligent Tracking ...