Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Save time and bandwidth by shutting out the most annoying types of advertising (iStock) (the_independent_577) Ad blockers are ...

Mozilla announced that it is rolling out Total Cookie Protection to the Firefox browser, its most powerful cookie blocking technology ever. The new technology blocks third-party cookie trackers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. However you browse, these free tools can tidy up the web (iStock/The Independent) (the_independent_577) The best ad blockers make ...

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 ...

So for many reasons, I'm done with Firefox. I'm trying to replicate some functionality with Safari and I've got adblocker and ghostery in place and working great, but I still want to block all but a ...

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 ...

Brave will let you block annoying cookie consent notifications in an upcoming version of the browser. Users will be asked if they want to block these notifications at the browser's first start. It has ...

The Brave browser will soon allows users to block annoying and potentially privacy-harming cookie consent banners on all websites they visit. If you visited BleepingComputer from Europe, you may have ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Ad blockers are software you can install on your mobile device to control ads and pop-up scripts while browsing the web or using various apps. Pop-ups are annoying and often hazardous because they ...

I've long been a fan of the Ghostery tracker and ad blocker, not to mention the Firefox-based, privacy-focused browsing and search suite that is Ghostery Dawn. My admiration has been turned up to 11 ...