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 ...

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 ...

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It's well-known that tools like password managers can help users improve their online security — by creating unique passwords for each website. However, researchers have found that advertising ...

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 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 ...

Firefox with Greasemonkey: If you've ever tried to copy a URL directly from the Google search results screen, you'll find that the resulting links aren't what they appear to be—but you can fix that ...