ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — A site will work fine whether you accept cookies or not but accepting all cookies can be bad for privacy on your browser. Cookies are small bits of code you can’t ...

Internet cookies have been around since the beginning of the web and generally serve a useful purpose. While most cookies are harmless and even necessary, some are not. Iâ m talking, of course, about ...

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Good news or bad news? It depends. Are you an internet user who cares about privacy? An internet publisher who cares about making money? Or somewhere in between? On Monday afternoon, Google shocked ...

Your Android phone is probably hoarding a ton of useless data from every website you've ever visited. Sure, some of it is useful, like keeping you logged into your ...

You’ve seen the ubiquitous pop-ups on nearly every website – “This site uses cookies. Click accept to continue.” Like most of the 4.9 billion internet users worldwide, you probably mindlessly click ...

As Google and others plan to eliminate third-party search and website trackers, other ways of identifying users and discovering their habits will replace them. Most online users have experienced it.

When you visit a website, a small pop-up appears before you explore it fully, asking you to “Accept all” or “Deny.” These are internet cookies often explained in tiny bits of texts we don’t bother to ...