How often do you assess the risk of browser extensions and their permissions? There are a myriad of browser extensions that can be installed in today’s modern web browsers. While browser extensions ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Apps and websites are always wanting more, aren’t they? More data, more privileges, more control. As a result, you’ll often get a flurry of permissions or cookie pop-ups whenever you open up an app or ...

As websites and web apps have grown in complexity, so have their demands: They want access to your webcam to make video calls, they want to know where in the world you are to serve up local ...

If you're the sort of person who habitually clicks "yes" on things, you've likely experienced your important smartphone notifications getting buried beneath an avalanche of unwanted spam from ...

Google is updating the Chrome web browser to automatically revoke notification permissions for websites that haven't been visited recently, to reduce alert overload. While Google Chrome's Safety Check ...

To enable cookies in Microsoft Edge, you'll need to head to your browser's "Site permissions" page. Cookies should be enabled in Microsoft Edge by default, but you can always turn them back on if they ...