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How harmful extensions quietly track users online

Browser extensions have become an integral part of our browsers. Whether they are ad blockers or anti-viruses, they enhance our everyday productivity and significantly improve our convenience. Since ...
If you are worried about your privacy online and being tracked by big corporations you might be interested in more about Browser Fingerprinting. A tracking method that collects detailed information ...
The prospect of Web users being tracked by the sites they visit has prompted several countermeasures over the years, including using Privacy Badger or an alternate ...
Mozilla, Microsoft, and Google have each developed some sort of “do not track” feature for their respective Web browsers. The intent is good, but each solution is fundamentally flawed and is unlikely ...
These days, everyone on the internet already knows if you're a dog. Thanks to a newly developed tracking technique, they may soon know even more. Pennsylvania-based computer science professor Yinzhi ...
A new browser is here to bring protection against data tracking, centering on a privacy-focused experience marketed as the "Mullvad Browser," also designed to reduce your fingerprint on the internet.
Researchers have developed a way to track a user across different browsers on the same machine by querying the installed applications on the device. Certain applications, when installed, will create ...
Clearing your cookies is not enough to protect your privacy online. New research led by Texas A&M University found that websites are covertly using browser fingerprinting — a method to uniquely ...
Jon Porter is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. Firefox is testing a new anti-tracking feature that ...
Something like this has happened to all of us lately: You shop for a watch for a friend’s birthday and for a week afterwards every site you visit features ads for watches. It seems like everyone from ...
There have been repeated warnings to “stop using Chrome” but now Google has provided a compelling reason for its 3 billion users to keep the browser. “Today, we ...