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Web analytics and tracking cookies play a vital role in online advertising, but they can also help attackers discover potential targets and their weaknesses, a new report shows. Security researchers ...

Firefox 57, released last month, includes a secret feature that will delay the loading of tracking scripts —JavaScript code loaded from known tracking domains such as advertising, analytics, and ...

DuckDuckGo responds to recent criticism saying the third-party tracking scripts it blocks will now include scripts from Microsoft. Earlier this year, a security researcher discovered DuckDuckGo’s ...

uBlock Origin 1.2.5 has been released with a new feature that blocks first-party tracking scripts that use DNS CNAME records to load tracking scripts from a third-party domain and bypass filters. A ...

Privoxy is a free, open-source local proxy for blocking ads and tracking scripts. Ad blocking is a controversial subject; much of the content you consume on the Web every day is made possible only ...

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 ...

A researcher has discovered that DuckDuckGo’s privacy-centric browser enables third-party tracking scripts from Microsoft Corp. to load in some cases. The discovery was reported by Bleeping Computer ...

Earlier this year, an editor working on The Times’s Privacy Project asked me whether I’d be interested in having all my digital activity tracked, examined in ...

Web analytics and tracking cookies play a vital role in online advertising, but they can also help attackers discover potential targets and their weaknesses, a new report shows. Security researchers ...