Third-party tracking remains widespread, with 61% of cookies set in third-party contexts. Mobile web performance lags behind desktop, with mobile sites showing much worse scores in key metrics.

Google engineers plan to improve user privacy and security by putting a short lifespan on cookies delivered via HTTP connections. Google hopes that the move will force website developers and ...

Flash cookies placed by many of the most popular Web sites are being used to track site visitors, even going so far as to re-create http tracking cookies after they’re deleted by privacy-conscious ...

The proposed standard enables two methods of automated preference delivery—one that communicates directly with the web server hosting a site being visited, and another that communicates with the ...

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Users can still be tracked even if they delete their HTTP cookies since Adobe's Flash plug-in stores data Adobe’s Flash program is being used on heavily trafficked Web sites to collect information on ...

For years, Chrome, Firefox, and virtually all other browsers have offered a setting that doesn’t save or refer to website cookies, browsing history, or temporary ...

Adobe’s Flash program is being used on heavily trafficked Web sites to collect information on how people navigate those sites even if people believe they’ve restricted the data collection, according ...