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Disconnect is a partly open source [1] browser extension and mobile app designed to stop non-consensual third party trackers, [2] and providing private web search and private web browsing. [3] On mobile, it is available for Android and iPhone. It was developed by Brian Kennish and Casey Oppenheim.
Google then promised to phase out the use of cookies in their web-browser in 2022, implementing their FLoC technology instead. The announcement triggered antitrust concerns from multiple countries for abusing the Chrome browser's market monopoly, with the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority and the European Commission both opening formal ...
Lightbeam (called Collusion in its experimental version) was an add-on for Firefox that displays third party tracking cookies placed on the user's computer while visiting various websites. It displays a graph of the interactions and connections of sites visited and the tracking sites to which they provide information.
A browser extension is a software module for customizing a web browser. Browsers typically allow users to install a variety of extensions, including user interface modifications, cookie management, ad blocking, and the custom scripting and styling of web pages. [1] Browser plug-ins are a different type of module and no longer supported by the ...
Ad blocking or ad filtering is a software capability for blocking or altering online advertising in a web browser, an application or a network. This may be done using browser extensions or other methods or browsers with inside blocking.
Free and open-source software portal; AdNauseam – A free and open-source browser extension that blocks and clicks on ads served by sites that ignore Do Not Track; Blur – An open-source application designed to stop non-consensual third party trackers.
HTTP cookies share their name with a popular baked treat.. The term cookie was coined by web-browser programmer Lou Montulli.It was derived from the term magic cookie, which is a packet of data a program receives and sends back unchanged, used by Unix programmers.
When a browser visits a website with the Evercookie API on its server, the web server can generate an identifier and store it on various storage mechanisms available on that browser. [2] If the user removes some but not all of the stored identifiers on the browser and revisits the website, the web server retrieves the identifier from storage ...