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I flew to England last year, and boy were my arms tired! Tired of clicking through cookie pop-ups on every website I visited, that is. Surely you know what I’m talking about: those banners or pop-ups that often appear, unbidden, when you go to a website you’ve never been to before. They’re supposed to tell you that a website is tracking you using tiny pieces of code called cookies and give you a way to refuse those cookies, as required by law in certain places (England, for instance). What the pop-ups usually do is…

Two popular mobile RPGS--Com2uS's Summoners War and Cookie Run: Kingdom from Devsisters--are coming together for a major crossover event within Summoners War beginning today. New characters, events, and missions will be available throughout the collaboration, but how do two very different franchises join together in an event like this?We spoke with Taehyoung Kim, the head of Summoners War developer Com2uS's Summoner Studio, about the new collaboration, including how the two universes fit together, the…

Just over a year after launching a major project targeting thousands of sites blatantly flouting cookie tracking rules in Europe, local privacy campaign group noyb has fired off another batch of complaints targeting a hardcore of website operators that it says have ignored or not fully acted upon earlier warnings to bring their cookie consent banners into compliance with the EU’s legal standard for consent, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Noyb says the latest batch of 226 complaints have been…

Here are some quick tech catch for you so that you stay updated with the latest crypto and tech news Good morning Tech Fam, here’s a quick tech update for you to catch on: What’s new today: After the major crypto crash Bitcoin believers are back again; in India crypto legislation faces the latest raid blow. Fast-Trach Insights: New EU rules, US listing requirements, and internet fragmentation will dent the platforms’ business models; Why is google delaying its cookie cancellation? Newly-listed tech startups…

Google is once again delaying its big plans to stop its Chrome browser from tracking you. Its long promised move to block third-party cookies will now begin in the second half of 2024 — at least. This is the second time the company has had to push the deadline back. Both times, the company blamed the delay on difficulties coming up with a new way to track users that was still privacy-friendly. Google’s business model likely factored into the decision, too: It relies on third-party cookies for some of its lucrative ad…

Instead of using the Google Tag Manager or global site tag code for cookie expiration or settings, you can now update them in GA4. Google announced last week that if you want to make changes to the default cookie settings, you can do so right in the GA4 property column section of your account. Read the announcement and help guide. You can read the announcement and learn how to change these settings here. Why we care. Making these changes can now be done faster and easier…

‘Women are not perfect. Women are cookie cutters. Women are not just the wife.’ And American actor Angelique Cabral is glad that it has started to reflect on the screen over the perfect imagery that was being painted for long. “Right now, women are at the forefront in the industry,” says Cabral, which she feels is highlighted in the web show, Undone. The show is not only led by three Latinas, but also comes packed with Mexican ancestry through the story of a family. The 43-year-old, who has featured in projects such as…

The government says the move will result in far fewer of the "frustrating" boxes appearing online.Andia | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesBritain wants an end to the barrage of cookie consent pop-ups.The government says new data reforms will heavily reduce the number of banners that appear on websites asking people to consent to cookies. The plans are part of a broader package of reforms from the U.K. seeking to diverge from EU data protection rules.Cookies are small files created each time you visit a new website.…

Image: Getty/MoMo ProductionsMozilla has rolled out a privacy protection it calls "Total Cookie Protection" as the default for the browser on Windows, Mac and Linux. The idea behind Total Cookie Protection is that cookies remain limited to the site from which they were added to a browser. Mozilla's analogy for the functionality of Total Cookie Protection is a "cookie jar", which is assigned exclusively to the site that dropped the cookie file in the browser. No other site can access that assigned cookie jar, fencing…

The road to hell is paved with good intentions — or, as you may call them, “cookie pop-ups.” The warnings have scarred the internet since the EU made them mandatory for most sites. Lawmakers were understandably concerned about companies tracking users as they browse the web. The notifications are their attempt to protect our privacy. Well, thanks — I hate them. No one reads the stoopid banners, sites use dark patterns to trick us into accepting their worst terms, and the pop-ups make peaceful…