ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — A site will work fine whether you accept cookies or not but accepting all cookies can be bad for privacy on your browser. Cookies are small bits of code you can’t ...

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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 ...

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.

Your Android phone's web browser picks up a lot of files, images and data from the websites that you visit every day, and a ...

In context: Tracking cookies have been the cornerstone of the web business for decades. The technology is so pervasive, even Google was unable to completely "kill" and replace it with modern ...

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