Firefox Starts Blocking Third-Party Cookies By Default

'Mozilla today announced a slew of privacy improvements. The company
has turned on Enhanced Tracking Protection, which blocks cookies from
third-party trackers in Firefox, by default. Mozilla has also improved
its Facebook Container extension, released a Firefox desktop extension
for its rebranded Lockwise password keeper, and updated Firefox
Monitor with a dashboard for multiple email addresses. Mozilla added
basic Tracking Protection to Firefox 42's private browsing mode in
November 2015. The feature blocked website elements (ads, analytics
trackers, and social share buttons) based on Disconnect's tracking
protection rules. With the release of Firefox 57 in November 2017,
Mozilla added an option to enable Tracking Protection outside of
private browsing. (Tracking Protection was not turned on by default
because it can break websites and cut off revenue streams for content
creators who depend on third-party advertising.)'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/06/04/1636241

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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