Most Internet users do not know that every step they make on the Internet is likely tracked by one or multiple companies. Tracking can be loosely divided into a first party and third party group. First party tracking is usually connected to the generation of visitor statistics, and less about the individual user. Third party [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Uncategorized

Cookies, those small data files that can do good (saving preferences or session information) or bad (tracking), have all an expiration date. The expiration date is set by the webmaster of each visited website and can range from seconds or minutes to years. Cookies will expire eventually and when they do they cannot be used [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

Question on how to clear individual cookies in the Google Chrome web browser just came up and I thought I write a small guide here on Ghacks about it. Google Chrome, just like any other modern web browser, accepts all cookies by default. Cookies are small data packages that are saved by domains on your [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

The main purpose of cookies is to make life on the Internet more comfortable. The little data files can however also be used for tracking purposes. They are needed but at the same time very controversial. I have touched the subject quite a few times here on Ghacks. In How To Whitelist Cookies And Delete [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Cookies are practical when you are able to block the ones you don’t want and allow the useful cookies. Cookies are tiny files that store information. These can come in handy if you want them but they are simply irritating if you don’t. Tracking cookies that record private information are the ones that most people [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Security

In How To Delete Cookies On A Computer and How To Clear A Browser Cache I have shown how to run a manual cleanup to delete the cache and cookies of a web browser. That’s handy to know and helpful in certain situations, for instance if you work on a computer where you cannot install [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Yesterday I have published a tutorial on clearing the browser cache which is an essential thing to know. Today I’m going to show you how to delete cookies from your PC, which is another basic but very helpful thing to know. This article addresses only standard cookies, not Flash cookies. Cookies are small files that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

One of the biggest privacy related problem on the Internet these days are information that are stored by the browser on the local computer. Most web browsers come with built-in tools to delete most of the data if the user knows how to configure the settings properly. To make matters worse, some data like Local [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

Consumer Privacy made it in the news big time recently in the United States with the FTC’s (Federal Trade Commission) report on online consumer privacy. Microsoft, secretly until now, has been working on a feature called Tracking Protection for some time that they plan to ship with the release candidate and final version of the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer