After years of seeing other browsers improve privacy features, Google is now offering a native Chrome feature to block cookies from being accessed by third-party clients. With this feature, it will ...

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 ...

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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Brave has open-sourceed a new tool called "Cookiecrumbler," which uses large language models (LLMs) to detect cookie consent notices and then community-driven reviews to block those that won't break ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, a study by academic researchers about behavioral advertising suggested that ad targeting didn't do much for publishers' bottom lines. But Thursday, Google cast doubt on those ...