When you visit a new website, you'll typically be greeted with a request to "accept cookies." These tiny data files enhance your browsing experience by tailoring it to your preferences, simplifying ...

You might be familiar with the practice of regularly clearing out the local data stored by your browser, including cookies—those little files that can store your ...

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Your Android web browser wants to be as fast as possible. That's why it's constantly saving little bits of data every time you visit a new website: That way, when you ...

Every web browser has what's called a cache: a temporary storage space for web pages that syncs online content to your computer or mobile device. This syncing is designed to help websites load up ...

As long as your phone is on, it’s sharing data. This happens whether you have an iPhone or Android, but one company is tracking much more than the other. Tap or click here to see if Apple or Google ...

Your Android phone's web browser picks up a lot of files, images and data from the websites that you visit every day, and a lot of that does not need to be on your ...

Samuel Conibear has been an Android obsessive since the first HTC Desire was released back in 2010. When he wasn't playing with custom ROMs, he was enjoying a successful career helping businesses grow ...

The debate over whether you should delete cookies and cache continues, with plenty of opposing opinions found all over the web. While cookies and cache are suitable for keeping your phone speedy, ...

Cookies, also known as "HTTP cookies," are small text files that websites store on your computer to help track your activity. Most cookies are used to track what sites you're logged in to, and your ...