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Mozilla is now rolling out Firefox 86 for desktop Macs, Windows, and Linux systems. The browser update brings features such as multiple picture-in-picture mode, and forward and rewind controls in video playback. While these features are nice, Firefox 86 also brings total cookie protection, and that’s very important for your privacy. How will it benefit […]
Firefox Launches Total Cookie Protection
Mozilla s latest release allows even stricter blocking of cookies. This is the latest move in its continued fight to protect user data.
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Total Cookie Protection has been built into the platform’s Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) and was announced on Tuesday 23rd February with the release of Firefox 86.
Mozilla refers to the Total Cookie Protection as a ‘major advance’ in confining cookies dropped by websites into new individual ‘cookie jars.’
The Cookie Jar Analogy
Mozilla describes the new blocker using a ‘cookie jar’ analogy, whereby every third-party that drops a cookie in your browser will have the accumulated data confined to a cookie jar of its own.
Mozilla’s Firefox is doubling down on blocking internet cookies from tracking your web browsing activities.
In Firefox 86 which launched on Tuesday Mozilla added a new feature called “Total Cookie Protection,” which is designed to confine cookies to the websites where they originated.
The company describes the feature as creating a digital cookie jar for each site Firefox loads up. “Any time a website, or third-party content embedded in a website, deposits a cookie in your browser, that cookie is confined to the cookie jar assigned to that website, such that it is not allowed to be shared with any other website,” Mozilla wrote in a blog post.