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Image Source : INDIA TV Chrome and Mozilla Firefox While we explore various things on the internet, our browser keeps the information stored. Information like your passwords, website visits, browsing history, downloaded data, and much more.  Although, the browser does it for the user’s benefit, unfortunately when too much data keeps piling up, it may cause your machine…

Your browser has a lot of your information stored: the websites you visit, your passwords, browsing history, data you have downloaded, and much more. This data keeps piling up over time on your PC and slows down your computer. It is always a good idea to clear your browser's cache, cookies, and history regularly. This also cleans up some space on your PC, protects your personal information, while deleting unnecessary data and improving the performance of your computer.What are cookies, cache, and history?You might have…

“Cookie stealing” is among the latest trends in cybercrimes that hackers are using to bypass credentials and access private databases, according to Sophos. Typical security advice for organizations has been to move their most sensitive information to cloud services or to use multifactor authentication (MFA) as a safety means. However, bad actors have figured out how to swipe cookies connected to login details and replicate them to hack the active or recent web sessions of programs that are not commonly refreshed.…

While regular cookies for websites can be safely stored and used by the end user for a generally smoother browsing experience, there’s a constant debate regarding how intrusive some actually are, and this discussion is especially applicable for third-party cookies. The latter category is predominately used by a third-party (hence the name) that places the cookie(s) onto a website you’re using. Platforms such as advertisers use this method to tailor its ads around your general internet activity, and as such, you may…

Third-party cookie tracking is going away, and the SEO industry is ready and diligently preparing ambivalent and posting memes on Twitter. SEO has been dealing with the lack of cookie tracking since its existence. So does the cookie’s demise actually matter? Well, my friends, I’m here to tell you two things. The good news: this change means something and there’s an opportunity.  The bad news: it’s not going to be easy. It takes some smart chops to get done, plus…

Google has announced that it is expanding the testing of Privacy Sandbox APIs to more population, essentially postponing the phasing out of third-party cookies in Chrome to 2024. This is a part of deploying Privacy Sandbox — its solution to provide more private, targeted advertising on the Internet. Google says that it got feedback from developers, publishers, marketers, and regulators asking for more time to evaluate as well as to test the new technologies before disabling third-party cookies in Chrome. Google in 2020…

Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative began with the intent to create technology to protect people’s privacy. Part of that initiative was to reduce cross-site and cross-app tracking by eliminating third-party cookies. Today it was announced that the initiative has been delayed and developers are aiming for a Q3 2023 launch. Google developers also predict that it will start phasing out third-party cookies in the second half of 2024. Why the delay. Google says that “consistent…

Google is once again delayin the phaseout of third-party cookies in Chrome. The browser will now fully support the tracking technology until the second half of 2024, Google said on Wednesday. Google originally committed, in early 2021, to ending third-party cookie support within the Chrome browser in 2022. The commitment came two years after Google began working on its "privacy sandbox" for Chrome. The efforts were slow and met some setbacks along the way. In a blog post Wednesday, Google's Privacy Sandbox VP Anthony…

We’re still at least two years away from ditching the invasive cookies, fingerprinting, and other tech that track user information and behavior across multiple sites for advertising to using Google’s preferred Privacy Sandbox set of replacements. Google originally published its intention to phase out support for third-party tracking cookies in Chrome within two years in early 2020 — now about two and a half years (and one global pandemic) ago. In a blog post published today, Google Privacy Sandbox vice president…

Google is again delaying its plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome. For those keeping track, the company first unveiled its in 2019 and said implementation would . However, from the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the , Google . On Wednesday, the company announced a further delay and said it won’t end support for third-party cookies before the second half of 2024. “The most consistent feedback we’ve received is the need for more time to evaluate and test the new Privacy Sandbox…