Years after rival web browsers made the move, Google Chrome on Jan. 4 will begin blocking websites from using third-party cookies, the easiest way to track our online behavior as we move around the ...

Google has changed its Web cookie privacy policy to address a common complaint by privacy advocates that information about Web surfers' activities is retained too long by the search giant. Cookies are ...

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Alphabet-owned Google said Monday it will no longer cancel third-party cookies after years of delays to find an alternative for its Chrome browser. By canceling third-party cookies, the change would ...

Google has been talking up a post-cookie future (in the browser sense, not the diet sense) for years now. But it seems like the company isn’t as confident as it used to be in its ability to completely ...

Apologies for not putting more of a disclaimer on that headline, and further apologies to anyone who spit their coffee out onto their laptop. But you read it right: Google is seriously considering ...

A new exploit threat lets hackers access your Google account using expired cookies that contain your login information. The exploits, which were discovered late last year, target session cookies, ...

On Tuesday, Google announced what appears, at least at first, to be a fairly monumental change to its Chrome browser: Over the next two years, it plans to “phase out support for third-party cookies in ...

Google's cookiepocalypse has begun, but so far only one percent of Chrome users have been raptured away to privacy heaven. Google announced its plan to stop supporting third-party cookies back in 2020 ...

Google won't kill third-party cookies in Chrome after all, the company said on Monday. Instead, it will introduce a new experience in the browser that will allow users to make informed choices about ...