Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Whenever you do anything on the internet, you’re being tracked. As ...

Tracking users online has long been a core part of how websites deliver targeted ads and personalized content. Traditional ...

When you browse the web, you would notice that some websites seem to know your preferences as you’re instantly prompted with ads that are tailored to your interests, right upon loading their site or ...

As reported by Boing Boing, a 2023 study out of UC Irvine, "Dazed and Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Nord Security’s Aurelija Skebaite has revealed in a May 27 ...

Google has begun a major project that will reshape advertising on the internet. As promised, Google has started disabling third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users, which is about 30 million people.

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 ...

Website cookies are online surveillance tools, and the commercial and government entities that use them would prefer people not read those notifications too closely. People who do read the ...

Cookies may be one of the most maligned parts of the internet, but they weren’t always so notorious. Back in 1994, a young man named Lou Montulli developed the cookie as a way for website operators to ...