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 ...

Chrome is adding a high-level shortcut to “Clear browsing data” on Android. Google has been testing various iterations of this feature over the past year, but appears to be landing on this version. A ...

The first details emerged Monday from Google’s settlement of a class-action lawsuit over Chrome’s tracking of Incognito users. Filed in 2020, the suit could have required the company to pay $5 billion ...

Chrome users who declined to sync their Google accounts with their browsing data secured a big privacy win this week after previously losing a proposed class action claiming that Google secretly ...

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets ...

GDPR cookie consent notices were meant to hand privacy control back to ordinary internet denizens. Instead, they’ve unleashed a tidal wave of deception, with unscrupulous website owners using any ...

Chrome users waiting for Google to kill third-party cookies now have to wait even longer. In a Tuesday news update, the company revealed that its plan to start blocking third-party cookies by default ...

A Google Chrome Web Store campaign uses over 100 malicious browser extensions that mimic legitimate tools, such as VPNs, AI assistants, and crypto utilities, to steal browser cookies and execute ...

A proof-of-concept attack called "Cookie-Bite" uses a browser extension to steal browser session cookies from Azure Entra ID to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) protections and maintain access ...

Aloha browser has a new Cookie Consent Management feature It automatically blocks or accepts cookies based on your settings It's rolling out to iOS now, hitting Android in 2025 Are you tired of ...

Microsoft Edge has a data import feature that’s misbehaving. Microsoft Edge has a data import feature that’s misbehaving. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...