If you’re using the internet, you’re bound to run into pop-up messages from websites asking you how you feel about cookies. Not the edible kind that everyone likes, but the software kind that ...

Some websites, including that of Finnish watchmaker Suunto, give users lots of options about managing cookies. Other websites are less clear. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press) If you're using ...

How cookies affect you. My newest research sought to understand how website cookie notifications are used in the U.S. to create friction and influence user behavior. To do this research, I looked ...

Third-Party Cookies: These come from external sources (not the website you’re currently on). Rejecting third-party cookies is a smart move because you don’t always know what those third ...

But if the Cookie Consent banner keeps popping up on every page of a website even after you click on Accept or OK, it becomes very annoying. If such a thing happens to you, you can use the ...

Know Your Website: Identify the cookies, pixels, tags, beacons, and other tracking tools that are in use. Identify what data each tracking tool is disclosing and who is receiving it. 2.

If you’ve visited a number of popular websites recently, you may have been confronted with a pop-up asking you to consent to cookies or pay a monthly fee (differing depending on the website ...