Ad tracking in Google Chrome is nothing new, but it looks slightly different now Google’s Topics API is rolling out more widely. If you’re not comfortable sharing your interests with advertisers but ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Soon, you could get fewer familiar ads following you around the internet - or at least on Facebook. Facebook is launching a long-promised tool that lets you block the social network ...

Many social media users are concerned about online privacy and want to minimize the tracking and data collection done by social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Both platforms—owned by ...

Automated Content Recognition (ACR) is essentially a way for content platforms to track your watching habits, and here's how to turn it off.

It turns out that Apple Maps has been keeping track of everywhere you go. In some iPhone and Mac settings, there is a list called “Visited Places” (sometimes it’s called “Significant Locations”) that ...

Google has an announcement today: It’s not going to do something it has thought about, and tinkered with, for quite some time. Most people who just use the Chrome browser, rather than develop for it ...

Apple has triggered panic throughout the tech world after announcing it would have to turn off its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature in Europe because of what it describes as "intense lobbying ...

Google is blocking Microsoft Edge users, who have the "strict" tracking protection mode enabled, from watching YouTube videos. These users have no option but to turn ...