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 ...

A few months on from a tracking controversy hitting privacy-centric search veteran, DuckDuckGo, the company has announced it's been able to amend terms with Microsoft, its search syndication partner, ...

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 ...

uBlock Origin 1.2.5 has been released with a new feature that blocks first-party tracking scripts that use DNS CNAME records to load tracking scripts from a third-party domain and bypass filters. A ...

Researchers at Princeton University discovered more than 400 of the most-trafficked websites in the world contain third-party scripts that can track every action—including every keystroke—an ...

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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 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 ...