“Cookies are just a fundamental part of how the Web works, about as essential as Wi-Fi, HTML, or electricity,” explains Silktide founder, Oliver Emberton. “All cookies do is recognize your computer as ...

Your browser is a surprisingly good snitch.

Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO Randall Rothenberg calls the effort to determine which cookies should be blocked or allowed a "Kangaroo Cookie Court" that will hurt small Internet publishers.

Apologies for not putting more of a disclaimer on that headline, and further apologies to anyone who spit their coffee out onto their laptop. But you read it right: Google is seriously considering ...

Google just gave itself a win-win with new advertising privacy controls that will affect developers — and, eventually, users and advertisers. The ability to better control who's tracking you to sell ...

For years, Chrome, Firefox, and virtually all other browsers have offered a setting that doesn’t save or refer to website cookies, browsing history, or temporary ...

Make no mistake: You’re being tracked. Want to be shocked? Take a look at the secret map in your smartphone that watches your every move. Tap or click here to see the map tracking you and wipe it ...

Google will pay $17m to settle claims by dozens of US states that it bypassed privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser designed to block third-party ad cookies. The deal with 37 states and the ...