Despite pressure from ad industry groups, Mozilla is moving forward with its controversial plan to block third-party cookies by default in Firefox 22. The company has just added the cookie-blocking ...

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Four years after declaring it wanted to block third-party cookies in Chrome, Google has confirmed it won't block the online trackers after all. In 2020, around the time when Apple blocked third-party ...

Mozilla has been courting controversy with its move toward blocking some third-party cookies by default in Firefox. While preventing unvisited websites from setting cookies is undoubtedly good for ...

Google has officially announced plans to gradually eliminate third-party cookies, a key aspect of its Privacy Sandbox initiative. This phased approach begins with a 1 ...

Google announced Thursday that it will start its long-anticipated slaughter of the internet’s cookies starting on January 4th, when it will block them for 1% of ...

You might have heard the terms “cache” and “cookies” thrown about a lot in discussions about online privacy, but it’s not ...

Google announced on Monday that it will pull the brakes on phasing out the use of third-party cookies on its Chrome browser because of concerns from regulators ...

It all has to do with cookies—and money. For years, Google has promised to make the internet respect your privacy by blocking third-party cookies in Chrome. The ...

For years, Google has promised to make the internet respect your privacy by blocking third-party cookies in Chrome. The idea was that it would create an alternative ...