How to protect your cookies from theft
When you visit almost any website, you’ll see a pop-up asking you to accept, decline, or customize the cookies it collects. Sometimes, it just tells you that cookies are in use by default. We randomly checked 647 websites, and 563 of them displayed cookie notifications. Most of the time, users don’t even pause to think […]
Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices—How To Stop It
Yes, you are being tracked. getty When users “cannot clear” unique tracking identifiers and “cannot control how their information is collected,” Google has warned, “this subverts user choice and is wrong.” Awkwardly, that 2019 warning has just come back to haunt Google, given its decision to restore digital fingerprinting, the very tracking it was warning […]
How to Save a Billion Hours
The average American spends 6 hours, 58 minutes a day on the internet. That adds up to 536.55 billion hours a year for all of us. We could save billions of hours by addressing inefficiencies introduced mostly by lawyers and politicians: • Accepting and rejecting cookies. Most people don’t even know what cookies are when […]