Google will delete billions of data records as part of a settlement for a lawsuit that accused the tech giant of improperly tracking the web-browsing habits of users who thought they were browsing the ...

Wherever you go on the internet, the same question pops up in one form or another: "Do you want to allow the use of cookies?" Where you click, where you spend time, what site you came from and when ...

After years of seeing other browsers improve privacy features, Google is now offering a native Chrome feature to block cookies from being accessed by third-party clients. With this feature, it will ...

The feature was rolled out as a test on Thursday to 1% of users, or 30 million people. Google said that it plans to roll out the elimination of cookies fully by the end of 2024. The small elimination ...

After four years of efforts to phase out cookies, Google has decided to keep them in its Chrome browser. Instead of eliminating cookies, Google will now offer users a new experience in Chrome that ...

Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad started his journalism career in 2013 and has amassed bylines with The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...

Google is planning to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser, it said on Monday, after years of pledging to phase out the tiny packets of code meant to track users on the internet. The major ...

Google has begun phasing out third-party cookies that can track users across the Internet: The internet giant on Thursday disabled third-party cookies for 1% of Google Chrome users, or about 30 ...

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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, ...

Google has announced that it will no longer continue with its plan to completely phase out third-party cookies on its Chrome browser and will instead take a more user ...