Google to enable Chrome users to block tracking cookies

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Google Chrome clampdown on tracking cookies unlikely to affect Google's own user tracking

Google is to release new privacy tools to enable Chrome users to block tracking cookies. The tool will provide information about what cookies are tracking them and will provide them with a range of...

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