It is a piece of big news for online privacy-seeking people. Mozilla Firefox announced blocking third-party cookies by default in the browser. In their recent privacy improvements, the company has implemented enhanced tracking protection which automatically blocks the cookies of the websites.
The latest update from the Firefox bring these changes to your browser and it will act as a guard to stop the tracking activity of websites including Facebook.
Mozilla Firefox made a clear point about the Enhanced Tracking Protection, you can check their words below.
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Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection blocks pervasive tracking and data collection by ad networks and tech companies. Chrome offers no equivalent to Enhanced Tracking Protection today other than if a user manually disables all third-party cookies in settings (this will break many websites).
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Apple’s intelligent tracking protection differs from Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection because it relies on an algorithm and there is burly evidence that add tracking companies are circumventing that algorithm. In addition, the security that Apple’s intelligent tracking protection provides does not extend beyond the apple hardware ecosystem.
As we know, there are several disadvantages of being tracked online without our consent. When we visit a website, it collects our information like user ID, user preferences, shopping archive data, browser, operating system and etc. These info’s are useful to identify the user activity by the website and they provide relevant information when you revisit the website.
However, there are several cons over pros for third-party cookies. These cookies can be stolen if the web session is unencrypted. So there is a chance of stealing your financial data if your online banking session is unsecured.
To avoid these kinds of situations, people are using proxy’s and VPN programs to anonymize their online identity. It is not a straightforward process to stay secure online every time. Luckily, Mozilla Firefox introduced browser-based tracking protection which works quite good to cut off the third-party cookies action in web sessions.
In the last year August 2018, Firefox announced it can block trackers by default. But the process of implementation has taken some time to roll-out. To get started, you need to download a fresh copy of the Mozilla Firefox from the official website.
After installing newly downloaded Mozilla Firefox, you will see a shield icon at the content blocking section. There you can see the website companies listed with their cookies information which are blocked by Firefox.