While regular cookies for websites can be safely stored and used by the end user for a generally smoother browsing experience, there’s a constant debate regarding how intrusive some actually are, and ...

PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. >> YOUR COOKIES KNOW A LOT ABOUT YOU. >> A COOKIE IS A FILE THAT A WEBSITE PUTS ON YOUR MACHINE, ON TO THAT WENT. YOUR BANK DOES IT SO IT KNOWS IT IS YOU THAT HAS ...

Browser cookies are one of those technical bits of web browsing that almost everyone has some awareness of. They're also probably one of the most misunderstood aspects of browsing. Today we're here to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Website cookies are online surveillance tools, and the commercial and government entities that use them would prefer people not ...

What is a Flash cookie? What is a Silverlight cookie? And what are Browser Independent Cookies? The third question (last one) is the answer to the first two questions. Flash Cookies are small files ...

Google has found itself suddenly enmeshed in a battle over how it uses cookies, small pieces of code for tracking users through their web browsers. While some argue that Google’s use of cookies ...

Browser cookies are useful in some instances; unpleasant in others. While they can save you from having to go through a complicated authentication process whenever you’re trying to access your ...

It's easy to enable cookies in Firefox, should you want to access websites that need to save data or passwords. Firefox has three cookie tracking settings you can enable — Standard, Strict, and Custom ...

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 ...

More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plug-in to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash ...

The world of cookies -- the kind that allows a company to follow you around from website to website -- is about to get a shake-up from one of the pre-eminent deployers of web cookies, Google. The tech ...