Mozilla said its Total Cookie Protection feature in Firefox 86 prevents invasive, cross-site cookie tracking.
The Mozilla Foundation has released its latest version of the Firefox browser, which comes with new privacy protections to squash cross-site cookie tracking, as well as a slew of security vulnerability fixes.
Firefox 86, released on Tuesday, includes what it touts as a privacy-bolstering feature called Total Cookie Protection. This new feature isolates each cookie assigned by each website – preventing websites from tracking internet users in an invasive, cross-site manner.
“Total Cookie Protection confines cookies to the site where they were created, which prevents tracking companies from using these cookies to track your browsing from site to site,” said Tim Huang, Johann Hofmann and Arthur Edelstein with Mozilla on Tuesday.
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It’s unlikely we’ll ever be able to live a tracker-free life online, but we appreciate the companies doing what they can to at least make tracking users a lot harder, technologically. If you’re a Firefox fan, Mozilla has just launched a new “Total Cookie Protection” mode that basically isolates all of a website’s cookies. Each website gets its own “cookie jar,” to borrow Mozilla’s metaphor, and cookies live there; they can’t be shared with any other website.