While you’re there also turn on Do Not Track-the setting doesn’t do much but indicates that you want more privacy experience online. If you’re using Chrome on a desktop, head to Settings, search for “cookies” and, under Cookies and other site data, check the option to block third-party cookies. It’s third-party cookies that you want to block to stop yourself being tracked across the web. These first-party cookies are mostly useful, and you probably want to keep them turned on. The former are the cookies created by the websites you visit-when you log in to Spotify, for instance, it will create a cookie that remembers it’s you using that browser. That doesn’t mean it's not worth taking some action against the cookies websites use at a browser level right now.Ĭhrome’s settings let you block both first-party and third-party cookies.

Apple and Firefox have largely killed off the tracking technology in their browsers, and when Google gets rid of them in Chrome next year they’ll be almost obsolete.

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