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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The European Union's GDPR was a double-edged sword that protected privacy not just for the region but for the rest of the world but at the expense of some inconveniences. Website administrators had a ...

Brave will let you block annoying cookie consent notifications in an upcoming version of the browser. Users will be asked if they want to block these notifications at the browser's first start. It has ...

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 ...

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 ...