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Topic · Privacy and security
Browsers and cookies
121 links saved from 2007 to 2026; 115 with a note, 70 in a Weekly Thing.
- Most from
- eff.org 11, webkit.org 6, arstechnica.com 4, blog.mozilla.org 3, brave.com 3
2026
2025
- supercookie: ⚠️ Browser fingerprinting via favicon!
- Go behind the browser with Chrome’s new AI features
- Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting | Texas A&M University Engineering
- Achieving Great Privacy with Safari
- Digital hygiene
- TabBoo
- How to: Get to Know iPhone Privacy and Security Settings | Surveillance Self-Defense
2024
2023
- On Ad Blockers
- How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should
- Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
- Redact - Delete Your Social Media Posts
- iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on
- Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought
2022
2021
- Remove tracking data from copied URLs
- PrivacyTests.org
- Brave Search
- Privacy watchers see fears coming true with Google's FLoC
- iCloud Private Relay and other Apple WWDC privacy features
- ClearURLs: Automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy
- 1Blocker 4.0 Adds In-App Tracker Blocking with Its New Firewall Feature
- Neeva - Ad-free, private search
- Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google's Invasive Experiment
- Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
- Brave acquires search engine to offer the first private alternative to Google Search and Google Chrome on both mobile and desktop
- Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast | Caspar von Wrede
2020
- Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
- How to Disable Google Analytics in the Nintendo Switch eShop
- .new - Google Registry
- Should I Block Ads?
- Why you should stop using Google Analytics on your website
- Full Third-Party Cookie Blocking and More
- The Brave Browser is Brilliant
2019
- Mozilla - *privacy not included
- Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center Letting You Track the Trackers
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of links
- Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
- Apple's New WebKit Policy Takes a Hard Line for User Privacy
- WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy
- Chrome to limit full ad blocking extensions to enterprise users
- Google Gmail tracks purchase history — how to delete it
- Chromium Blog: Improving privacy and security on the web
- Link Click Analytics and Privacy
- Introducing Warp: Fixing Mobile Internet Performance and Security
- Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.1
2018
- Google Chrome’s Users Take a Back Seat to Its Bottom Line
- Privacy Badger Now Fights More Sneaky Google Tracking
- DuckDuckGo Traffic
- Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
- Private by Default
- Make your Firefox browser a privacy superpower with these extensions | The Firefox Frontier
- Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker
- Brave Introduces Beta of Private Tabs with Tor for Enhanced Privacy while Browsing
- Fathom · simple, trustworthy website analytics
- Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0
- WWDC 2018: Apple Just Made Safari the Good Privacy Browser
- StopTheMadness
- Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
- Privacy, simplified.
- No tracking, no revenue: Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions | Technology
- Ad targeters are pulling data from your browser’s password manager
2017
- Disqus and Zeta
- Panopticlick
- Min | A smarter, faster web browser
- Apple responds to ad group’s criticism of Safari cookie blocking
- Ad groups blast apple for blocking cookies in Safari —Apple World Today
- Why 16% of the code on the average site belongs to Facebook, and what that means
- Google paying Apple $3 billion to remain default search - Bernstein
- Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says | Technology
- Little Snitch 4
- How to Opt Out of Twitter's New Privacy Settings
2016
2015
- Potential changes to cookies in Chrome. - Google Groups
- How to Baffle Web Trackers by Obfuscating Your Movements Online
- Introducing Peace, my privacy-focused iOS 9 ad blocker
- DirectLinks: Safari Extension That Circumvents Google and Facebook Link Redirects
- ★ Safari Content Blocker, Before and After
- Inside App Extensions: WebKit Content Blockers extend user privacy in iOS 9, OS X Safari 9
- Surfin' Safari - Blog Archive » Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers
2014
2012
- Modify hosts file to make DuckDuckGo replace Yahoo Search
- With New Privacy Policy, Twitter Commits to Respecting Do Not Track
- Mindful Browsing - Control habit forming, distracting or aggravating websites.
- Pinterest Updates Terms Of Service As It Preps An API And Private Pinboards: More Copyright Friendly
- Private browsing and Search - Stop online tracking and malware
- International Reactions to Google’s New Privacy Policy
- Collusion
2011
- Google+ Gets a “+1″ for Browser Security | The Barracuda Labs Internet Security Blog
- Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Cant Be Dodged
- Whois Masking Considered Harmful
- Ghostery
- Keep My Opt-Outs
- Startingpage
- Abusing HTTP Status Codes to Expose Private Information
- Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it
- Mozilla Leads the Way on Do Not Track
- Cocoon
2010
- Mozilla CEO: 'Do Not Track' Option Will Be In Firefox 4
- Incognito
- Internet Explorer 9 gets new anti-tracking privacy feature
- FTC 'do not track' plan would be a Google killer - Dec. 2, 2010
- How YouPorn Tries To Hide That It's Spying On Your Browsing History
- History Sniffing: How YouPorn Checks What Other Porn Sites Youve Visited and Ad Networks Test The Quality of Their Data
- Firesheep
- Safari Extension Hides You from Google and Facebook
- More choice for users: browser-based opt-out for Google Analytics on the way
- Vimeo Introduces HTML5 H.264 Player