Hundreds of popular add‑ons used encrypted, URL‑sized payloads to send search queries, referrers, and timestamps to outside servers, in some cases tied to data brokers and unknown operators.

Your browsing history is a deeply personal log of your thoughts, interests, and intentions. But a new wave of sophisticated malware, dubbed "history sniffing," is actively targeting this data, and ...

Despite browsing “Incognito,” your history might not be so private after all. An alleged glitch has been plaguing iPhone users who watch NSFW content in a private window, a browsing mode that promises ...

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