There are a lot of things that make browsing the internet painful instead of pleasant, and cookie banners or consent forms are easily at the top of that list. Almost every website you visit greets you ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Cookies are small files that websites store on your phone or computer to help them remember information about you and your visit. In this way, ...

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 ...

After briefly testing the feature in beta, Opera is officially rolling out the option for its Android app users to automatically block cookie dialog boxes that pop up on websites. (That type of pop-up ...

The European Union's GDPR was a double-edged sword that protected privacy not just for the region but for the rest of the world but at the expense of some inconveniences. Website administrators had a ...

What you do on the internet is being tracked. Almost every webpage you visit has trackers that log where you go and what you do while you're there. Third-party ads often contain tracking cookies that ...

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives users more control over how a website can track their browsing activity using cookies. However, as Vivaldi points out, many ...

If you're frustrated at having to constantly close "we use cookies" dialog boxes on websites in the GDPR era, relief might be in sight. Opera has released an updated Android browser with an option to ...

If you're serious about web browser security, you might want to consider blocking all cookies. It's more work, but the result will give you much more privacy and security. Jack Wallen shows you how.