You've probably heard the phrase "if you're not paying for it, you're the product." With free web services, that's especially true. Advertisers and data brokers ...

The specific combination of mundane information such as your plugins and system fonts can be used to create a “fingerprint” for your browser that could potentially uniquely identify you. To showcase ...

One of the perks of using Chrome is a wide assortment of browser extensions at your disposal. Including themes and apps, there are over 200,000 of them in the Chrome Web Store. There's strength in ...

Clearing your cookies is not enough to protect your privacy online. New research led by Texas A&M University found that websites are covertly using browser fingerprinting — a method to uniquely ...

If you are worried about your privacy online and being tracked by big corporations you might be interested in more about Browser Fingerprinting. A tracking method that collects detailed information ...

We have more tools to secure our identity online than ever before. You can ban cookies — the little pieces of information websites deposit in our browsers to ...

A browser's digital fingerprint reveals a wealth of information and can potentially be used to profile and identify a user The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created an on-line tool that details ...

In theory, yeah, though I wouldn't be surprised if there's still ways to work around that to some degree. Without having to give up all scripting functionality, it'd be great if browsers could be ...

The number of web browsers I have on my system grows every day. Mostly I stick with one or two browsers (at the moment, those are Firefox and Sidekick), but every once in a while, I toss in a third ...