Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default | The Mozilla Blog
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Updated Aug. 28, 2024. Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the
    • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Advertisers track you with device fingerprinting and behaviour profiling now. Firefox doesn’t do much to obscure the more advanced methods of tracking.

        • hoot@lemmy.caEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Lots do. But do you know anyone that turns JS off anymore? Platforms don’t care if they miss the odd user for this - because almost no one will be missed.

          • pixelscript@lemm.eeEnglish
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            6 months ago

            “Anymore”? I’ve never met a single soul who knows this is even possible. I myself don’t even know how to do it if I wanted to.

            I do use NoScript, which does this on a site-by-site basis, but even that is considered extremely niche. I’ve never met another NoScripter in the wild.

  • ArchRecord@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    For those who don’t care to read the full article:

    This basically just confines any cookies generated on a page, to just that page.

    So, instead of a cookie from, say, Facebook, being stored on site A, then requested for tracking purposes on site B, each individual site would be sent its own separate Facebook cookie, that only gets used on that site, preventing it from tracking you anywhere outside of the specific site you got it from in the first place.

    • peopleproblems@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Hahahahaha so it doesn’t break anything that still relies on cookies, but neuters the ability to share them.

      That’s awesome

      • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Honestly, I thought that’s how it already worked.

        Edit: I think what I’m remembering is that you can define the cookies by site/domain, and restrict to just those. And normally would, for security reasons.

        But some asshole sites like Facebook are cookies that are world-readable for tracking, and this breaks that.

        Someone correct me if I got it wrong.