Tag: COOKIES

Yesterday, both Mozilla and Google introduced new browser features capable of preventing third-party advertisers from tracking Firefox and Chrome users, respectively. And, while both services aim to give users greater control over their online information, they operate in noticeably different ways. Mozilla's new system alerts third-party advertisers and companies whenever a Firefox user doesn't ...

Ever try to copy and paste an excerpt from an article only to find an obnoxious "Read more at our website" link sitting at the end of your message? It's likely that Tynt is powering this delightful functionality. Fortunately, the company offers the ability to opt out. Make sure you've got cookies enabled, and simply click 'opt-out' here to disable the feature; you'll need to manually opt out for ...

Be careful, iTunes shoppers. A new arrival to the App Store could gorge consumers with third-party cookies -- although the distributor in this particular situation is only Martha Stewart, and the cookies are actually tangible. The Martha Stewart Makes Cookies App for iPad serves up "a mouthwatering assortment of Martha's favorite cookies," by mixing "cutting-edge technology with beautiful design ...

We understand that SIGGRAPH frequently exhibits the most outre and ridiculous tech experiments -- the ones that could be useful on a larger scale and within a different context. But Takuji Narumi of Tokyo University may be the winner of the Most Insane Research award for his Meta Cookie System, which seems to serve no purpose but to advance the idea that our future lies in a simulated reality ...

Imagine if the seemingly endless capabilities of 'Photoshop' could be applied to something other than digital imagery. A new video by Maya Rota Klein indulges in that fantasy, making a canvas out of her kitchen counter. 'Adobe Photoshop Cook' is an adorable stop-motion flight of fancy, in which ingredients can be pulled from a series of swatches -- as easily as RGB colors. Klein does make some ...

Even though Firefox 3.0 set a Guinness World Record back in 2008 for the most downloads in a 24-hour period, there were, apparently, still people hesitant to upgrade from the previous version. According to Download Squad, Firefox personnel have been sending questionnaires to users who declined to make the switch in order to figure out why. Results revealed that people who stuck with 2.0 did so ...

Who is watching you? The answer is also a new term to include in your Web vocabulary: Web Bugs. No, these aren't viruses and they aren't even malicious. Companies do use them, though, to track your online activity so that they can serve up ads that more effectively target you as a user and as a consumer. Ghostery is a Web plug-in that alerts you whenever a Web Bug is monitoring your online ...