How many times have you been shopping online for something, like a sweater or a pair of headphones, only to be immediately served an ad for that exact same product the next time you opened on ...

Facebook will soon let you toss your cookies. The site is building a tool to let users “clear” their browsing history from the social media giant’s database, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed Thursday. “In ...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook has begun archiving some user’s link histories on both Android and iOS devices, marketing the move as a better way for users to keep track of the various web pages they ...

Facebook is kicking off its F8 conference by heading off everyone's most pertinent question: What is the platform doing to address user data concerns? The answer, it seems, is Clear History, a new ...

Facebook may be taking over the world, through Messenger and Instagram (now more popular than Twitter), but you can stop it from taking over your life. You already know how to block companies from ...

Facebook is working on a new privacy control that will let users manage and clear their browsing history on the social network, in a bid to give users more say over what kind of information ...

When Facebook introduced its Clear History feature in May, it expected to offer the privacy-oriented controls in the space of a few months. Well... it's going to take decidedly longer than that. The ...

Facebook already serves ads based on users’ interests—like say if they claim to be a Dodgers fan. But soon it’ll be able to deliver ads based on whether a user just visited page to pick up Dodgers ...

I don't use Facebook. I'm not technophobic — I'm a geek. I've been using email since the early 1990s, I have accounts on hundreds of services around the net, and I do software development and internet ...

Facebook’s users will soon be able to listen to music hosted on Spotify while browsing. Project Boombox is the new initiative by the networking giant that cements the growing ties between the two ...

We're used to hearing about the web browser market share being disputed by the bigger players, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. However, in terms of mobile browsing, it seems that one major ...

Lorrie Cranor receives funding from Bosch, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Mellon CyLab, DARPA, DuckDuckGo, Facebook, an endowed professorship established by the founders of FORE Systems, ...