Mozilla today unveiled its latest privacy feature with Firefox 86 for Mac, Windows, Linux and more called ‘Total Cookie Protection’. The new privacy option creates separate cookies for each website you visit to prevent tracking by websites.
Mozilla today unveiled the new Firefox feature on its Security blog:
Our new feature, Total Cookie Protection, works by maintaining a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit. Each time a website, or third-party content embedded on a website, deposits a cookie into your browser, the cookie is restricted to the cookie pot assigned to that website, so that it may not be shared with any other website. does not become.
The new security feature is part of Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) Strict mode. But there is support for detecting exceptions in various areas:
In addition, Total Cookie Protection makes a limited exception on cookies in different areas when they are needed for non-tracking purposes, such as those used by popular third-party login providers. Only when Total Cookie Protection notices that you intend to use a provider will it give that provider permission to use a website cookie specifically for the website you are currently visiting. Such short-lived exceptions allow for strong privacy protection without affecting your browsing experience.
Total cookie protection comes after Mozilla launched Supercookie Protections in January with Firefox 85. The non-profit organization says, “These features prevent websites from” tagging “your browser, eliminating the most pervasive tracking technique across the entire site.”
For a technical explanation of how Total Cookie Protection works, you can read Mozilla’s development document here.
Firefox is a free download for Mac (including Windows, Linux, Chrombook).
Apple includes on-premises detection prevention in Safari for Mac and iOS that first arrived with macOS Mojave and iOS 12. And since then, of course, Apple has moved to further limit device detection with the upcoming transparency feature for ads to launch on iOS 14 in early spring. ”
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