Flash cookies placed by many of the most popular Web sites are being used to track site visitors, even going so far as to re-create http tracking cookies after they’re deleted by privacy-conscious ...

Ironically, a trusty online privacy feature can now be reworked into a “super cookie” that tracks you like a bloodhound. Any respectable Web browser has a “privacy mode,” a clean slate without the ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

For decades, “cookies” have been tracking you around the web. They’re the snippets of code that uniquely identify your browser and allow those shoe ads to follow you from site to site after you visit ...

After nearly 20 years, the era of web-based ‘cookies’ appears headed for an end, as companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft explore new ways to track Internet users’ habits, from desktop PCs to ...

Last week, the White House announced a new Internet privacy agreement with the companies serving nearly 90 percent of "online behavioral advertisements," theoretically forcing the likes of Google, ...

For decades, “cookies” have been tracking you around the web. They’re the snippets of code that uniquely identify your browser and allow those shoe ads to follow you from site to site after you visit ...