Browser cookies are not consent: The new path to privacy after EU data regula...
Nobody loves cookies: Where the European Union General Data Protection Regulation falls short and what can be done. The endless cookie settings that pop up for every website feel a bit like prank compliance by an internet hell-bent on not changing. It is very annoying. And it feels a little bit like revenge on regulators by the data markets, giving the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) a bad name and so that it might seem like political bureaucrats have, once again, clumsily interfered with the otherwise smooth progress of innovation.The truth is, however, that the vision of....
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Fractal Protocol offers a better experience for users and a fairer market for content creators When you visit a website you will these days have to give consent for cookies, which are used to identify users as a returning visitor, analysing their use of any specific website, giving them access to third-party services and building […]
In recent years, you may have noticed the proliferation of websites asking you to confirm your use of third-party cookies. In their haste, most people blindly accept the terms without a proper understanding of what they entail. In short, cookies are small files installed on your device, commonly used to track your activity and share that information with organizations or advertisers. Cookies have become such a hot topic that in 2018 the GDPR enforced data […]
Here is a small exercise for all our readers. Make a list of things that come to your mind when I say 'Deep Web'. Hope you have made a mental list of all the things that came to your mind. Now, let me take the liberty to note down all the things that you might have associated with deep web. 1. Drugs. 2. Silk Road. 3. Bitcoin. 4. Ross Ulbricht. 5. FBI. 6. Hackers for hire. 7. Pornography. 8. Contraband. 9. Fake IDs. 10. Guns for hire. 11. Cookies. Guess I have got most of them right except for the last one. Yes, it is cookies. Not hash cookies or space cookies or the cookies that track your....
More than 42 million Brave users will soon be able to access Solana dApps within Brave. During Solana's Breakpoint conference in Lisbon, Portugal, executives at Brave and Solana Labs announced that the Brave browser would integrate with the Solana (SOL) blockchain and feature Solana decentralized applications, or dApps, on its browser. Simultaneously, Solana will promote the adoption of Basic Attention Tokens (BAT), the native digital currency of the Brave Browser, among its dApp users.We've partnered with @solana to integrate it into the browser and make it the default for DApp....
30 March 2016 – Decentraleyes, a decentralized privacy addon for Firefox goes above and beyond to deliver a private experience for users of the browser by loading local versions of common content libraries that mine user data. Web sites increasingly rely on these delivery systems to collect data with ad-blocking and cookie destruction becoming more and more mainstream, and traditional privacy measures tend to break these sites. By offering local, auditable versions of these content delivery systems Decentraleyes seeks to patch a hole in user privacy previously open on nearly all web browsers.