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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Cookies are small files that websites store on your phone or computer to help them remember information about you and your visit. In this way, ...

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Opera GX may not be quite as popular as massive names like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, but it has gained a lot of traction in recent years and stands as one of the more well-received major web ...

After years of seeing other browsers improve privacy features, Google is now offering a native Chrome feature to block cookies from being accessed by third-party clients. With this feature, it will ...

What you do on the internet is being tracked. Almost every webpage you visit has trackers that log where you go and what you do while you're there. Third-party ads often contain tracking cookies that ...

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 ...

Unlike its browser competitors, Firefox will soon start blocking tracking cookies by default in the name of consumer privacy. Web tracking has long been in the cross-hairs of privacy advocates, who ...

If you're serious about web browser security, you might want to consider blocking all cookies. It's more work, but the result will give you much more privacy and security. Jack Wallen shows you how.

If you're frustrated at having to constantly close "we use cookies" dialog boxes on websites in the GDPR era, relief might be in sight. Opera has released an updated Android browser with an option to ...