Firefox states that Mozilla users will be secured against cross-site tracking automatically while suffering on Internet in Private Browsing mode.
The Firefox 98 version released today, the Total Cookie protection will be permitted by default in Private Browsing mode.
Total Cookie Protection is structured to force all websites to preserve their cookies in independent “vase,” to restrict them from tracking you across the web and constructing browsing profiles.
In February 2021 it was first introduced in Firefox 86, this security feature was only active until now when users would manually toggle on ETP Strict Mode in their browser’s setting.
What is Mozilla Total Cookie Protection?
Firefox Privacy and Security Senior Product Manager at Mozilla Arthur Edelstein state that “The Mozilla Total Cookie Protection is a sophisticated set of security advancements that administer a simple, revolutionary principle: your web browser should not permit the sharing of cookies between websites.”
“This rule is now administered in Firefox Private Browsing windows by generating an independent cookie jar for each and every website you visit.”
While continuously blocking misbehaving websites that want to track you across the web, Total Cookie Protection does make a limited exception in the case of cross-site cookies needed for non-tracking purposes, such as the ones used by popularized third-party login providers.
What are Privacy Protections Firefox Design?
As per as the Mozilla, while going through the web using Firefox’s private mode will be restricted using the following privacy protection technologies, all enabled by default:
- Total Cookie Protection isolates cookies to the site where they are generated.
- Supercookie protections stop supercookies from tracking you from site to site.
- Many fingerprinting scripts are blocked, according to Disconnect list of invasive fingerprinting domains.
- Trackers are blocked, also includes cookies, scripts, tracking pixels, and other resources from domains on Disconnect list of known trackers.
- SmartBlock accurately fixes up web pages that were previously broken when tracking scripts were blocked.
To enter into private browsing mode in Firefox, all you require to do is to launch the Application Menu by click the button ( ) on the top right and then select “New Private Window.”
One can also enables private browsing mode only be using their keyboards by giving the simple command i.e. Ctrl + Shift + P (or Cmd + Shift + p for macOS).
Mozilla also announcing the Site Isolation in related news to all Firefox channels, a privacy feature structured to secure users from attacks
