While tracking WordPress pageviews in Google Analytics is pretty easy to accomplish, another interesting metric for many websites is to track author statistics. Namely, how many pageviews is each of ...

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, ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Digital analytics is coming full circle. After years of relying on browser-based tags and cookies, marketers are returning to a familiar concept — server-side tracking — to regain control of data ...

Firefox with Greasemonkey: If you've ever tried to copy a URL directly from the Google search results screen, you'll find that the resulting links aren't what they appear to be—but you can fix that ...

Earlier this year, an editor working on The Times’s Privacy Project asked me whether I’d be interested in having all my digital activity tracked, examined in ...

DuckDuckGo is implementing a new privacy feature after some critics blasted the browser because of an exemption. Previously, it has only blocked the trackers from Google and Facebook but not from ...