Web Tracking is not the same as website tracking. The latter refers to analyzing things about any website. That’s done using different tools available to webmasters. Web Tracking is about tracking you ...

The web is overrun with cookies, and not the tasty kind. These small pieces of code follow you around the web and help firms build up profiles about your interests. Stalked from website-to-website by ...

DuckDuckGo is implementing a new privacy feature after some critics blasted the browser because of an exemption. Previously, it has only blocked the trackers from Google and Facebook but not from ...

Amy Jessel made the conscious decision not to buy Facebook or Google ads to promote her nonprofit company ShapingYouth. "I went to great lengths not to monetize via Google AdSense or even sponsorship ...

The free Ghostery add-on for Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, and Opera tells you which third-party sites placed a tracking cookie in your browser when the current page opened and ...

In 2024, plaintiffs across the United States filed various class action cases related to web tracking technology employed by companies to enhance user experience on their websites and to improve the ...

A few months on from a tracking controversy hitting privacy-centric search veteran, DuckDuckGo, the company has announced it’s been able to amend terms with Microsoft, its search syndication partner, ...

Web tracking lawsuits stem from companies collecting their website visitors' data. These cases do not involve "hacking" or other forms of data breach or data incident, writes contributors John Cleary, ...