This article was originally published by ProPublica on October 21st, 2016. When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the ...

It probably doesn't come as a surprise that your online activities are tracked every time you surf the net. Behind every search you do, every website you visit, every purchase you make, there is some ...

The web can be a scary place. The team that develops WebKit for Apple’s Safari browser is taking a strong stand against companies tracking people on the web. They call out tracking as an infringement ...

A few months on from a tracking controversy hitting privacy-centric search veteran, DuckDuckGo, the company has announced it’s been able to amend terms with Microsoft, its search syndication partner, ...

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 ...

As part of its war on web tracking, Mozilla is adding a new tool to Firefox aimed at stopping cookies from keeping tabs on you across multiple sites. The "Total Cookie Protection" feature is included ...

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Apple to Advertisers: Follow Safari Web-Tracking Rules or Else 'If a party attempts to circumvent our tracking prevention methods, we may add additional restrictions without prior notice,' Apple's new ...

Web Tracking is not the same as website tracking. The latter refers to analyzing things about any website. That’s done using different tools available to webmasters. Web Tracking is about tracking you ...

The web is overrun with cookies, and not the tasty kind. These small pieces of code follow you around the web and help firms build up profiles about your interests ...

Recent research suggests web tracking could be highly accurate using information about a PC's GPU shader cores. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...