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 ...

If you ask most people how they stay private online, they’ll give you a familiar list: incognito mode, rejecting cookies, maybe switching to a “privacy browser.” It sounds sensible. It feels ...

Google has begun phasing out third-party cookies that can track users across the Internet: The internet giant on Thursday disabled third-party cookies for 1% of Google Chrome users, or about 30 ...

Wherever you go on the internet, the same question pops up in one form or another: "Do you want to allow the use of cookies?" Where you click, where you spend time, what site you came from and when ...

This summer, Google conspicuously paused its long-held plans to abolish third-party cookies in its Chrome browser after failing to please a mix of privacy campaigners, regulators, and advertisers. The ...

"How the industry manages cookie consent is backward and has actually backfired," said Andrew Frost Moroz, Founder of Aloha Browser. "It's time to give users the ability to manage their privacy ...

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.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Nord Security’s Aurelija Skebaite has revealed in a May 27 ...

When you visit a new website, a cookie consent pop-up asking you to “Accept” or “Reject” cookies has become almost ...