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You Can Make It Way Harder for Cookies to Track You in Edge
Microsoft Edge is one of the rare browsers that offers both privacy and versatility. One such privacy feature automatically deletes any browsing data, including cookies and site data. That means you can leave a clean slate every time you quit and relaunch Edge, making it difficult for third-party cookies to track you across sessions and…
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Cookies: I Looked at 50 Well-known Websites and Most Are Gathering Our Data Illegally
The owners of Google and Facebook were both heavily fined for using cookies illegally at the tail end of 2021 by the French data protection authority, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Liberté (CNIL). On the French versions of Google, its sister platform YouTube, and Facebook, users were being asked to consent to cookies in…
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You Told Your Apps To Stop Tracking You, but They Didn’t Listen
In 2014, some very pervy creeps stole some very personal iCloud photos from some very high-profile celebs and put them on the open web, creating one very specific PR crisis for Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook. The company was about to roll out Apple Pay as part of its latest software update, a process that took…
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The End of Cookies Is Coming Later than We Thought
Google announced on Thursday that it will delay its plans to kill off third-party cookies in its Chrome browser until late 2023.