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Website cookies are online surveillance tools, and the commercial and government entities that use them would prefer people not read those notifications too closely. People who do read the ...

When visiting a website for the first time, you will invariably encounter a prompt to "accept cookies." While allowing cookies lets you enjoy a custom experience, allowing you to bypass logging in and ...

Google has found itself suddenly enmeshed in a battle over how it uses cookies, small pieces of code for tracking users through their web browsers. While some argue that Google’s use of cookies ...

Alphabet’s GOOGL division Google recently decided to restrict third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser in a bid to address users’ privacy concern. We note that these web cookies are very crucial ...

When you visit a website, your web browser usually saves a lot of information during your visit. Some information is automatically saved by the web browser, in the form of cache and history. When ...

The world of cookies -- the kind that allows a company to follow you around from website to website -- is about to get a shake-up from one of the pre-eminent deployers of web cookies, Google. The tech ...

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Google will join Safari and Firefox in blocking third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser. However, unlike those browsers (which have already started blocking them by default), Google intends to ...

Website cookies are online surveillance tools, and the commercial and government entities that use them would prefer people not read those notifications too closely. People who do read the ...