An Internet Free of Ad Cookies Is Now Closer Than Ever

An Internet Free of Ad Cookies Is Now Closer Than Ever

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 […]


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Fractal Is Replacing Ad Cookies and Why That’s a Big Deal

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 […]

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Welcome to Bitecoin, where CCN's Calvin Tran reviews food bought with Bitcoin. I have tested my taste-buds on some delicious cookies from a local baker, Liz Bresler of Gotham Cookies. The BitPay recently did a small profile for their blog. Gotham Cookies is a New York City-based artisan cookie company. They offer a wide range of flavors, from the irrepressible Chocolate Chip and Cookie-n-Creme, to the more varied and unique Apple Pie and Crème Brûlée as well as custom flavors for parties and other events. While Gotham Cookies is willing to hand deliver locally around New York City, they're....

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A chocolate image called "Sweet life. Bitcoin will be in chocolate" took first place in the first Bitcoin Photo Contest, which recently ended. The winning entry by a user named Nadin crafted bitcoin cookies to win the grand prize of €1000 in BTC which will be sent via bit4coin vouchers. Nadin and the other winners will be able to immediately redeem their vouchers for BTC at the current exchange rate. Nadin won the contest, which drew 600 entries, by convincing four of the contest's six jury members. First place - bitcoin cookies. The contest, sponsored by bit4coin, launched Sept. 8,....

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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....