Mozilla rolls out “Total cookie protection” with Firefox 86
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 5:21 am
Mozilla has released Firefox 86 , its latest updated version, with improved cookie protection features . While the browser already restricts cookies and web trackers to a greater extent, they have now improved this security even further.
With Firefox 86, Mozilla is offering “Total Cookie Protection” to users of the browser. This feature will prevent website cookies from tracking users across the web.
Cookies stored in the browser allow different norway email list websites to keep track of users' activities. In this way, sites can create user profiles. In addition, advertisers use this technology to serve relevant ads to Internet users.
To prevent this user tracking, Mozilla introduced Total Cookie Protection. This feature prevents websites from accessing cookies from other websites. As Mozilla describes:
"Our new feature, Total Cookie Protection, works by maintaining a separate 'cookie jar' for each website you visit. Whenever a website, or third-party content embedded in a website, drops a cookie on your browser, that cookie is confined to the 'cookie jar' assigned to that website, so it is not allowed to be shared with any other website."
However, it will also allow some exceptional cross-site cookies required for purposes other than tracking. Thus, this feature will not hinder the core functionality of services requiring such cookies, such as third-party login providers.
This feature, combined with the “ supercookie protection” launched by Mozilla with Firefox 85, will significantly prevent aggressive user profiling via browser tags.
With Firefox 86, Mozilla is offering “Total Cookie Protection” to users of the browser. This feature will prevent website cookies from tracking users across the web.
Cookies stored in the browser allow different norway email list websites to keep track of users' activities. In this way, sites can create user profiles. In addition, advertisers use this technology to serve relevant ads to Internet users.
To prevent this user tracking, Mozilla introduced Total Cookie Protection. This feature prevents websites from accessing cookies from other websites. As Mozilla describes:
"Our new feature, Total Cookie Protection, works by maintaining a separate 'cookie jar' for each website you visit. Whenever a website, or third-party content embedded in a website, drops a cookie on your browser, that cookie is confined to the 'cookie jar' assigned to that website, so it is not allowed to be shared with any other website."
However, it will also allow some exceptional cross-site cookies required for purposes other than tracking. Thus, this feature will not hinder the core functionality of services requiring such cookies, such as third-party login providers.
This feature, combined with the “ supercookie protection” launched by Mozilla with Firefox 85, will significantly prevent aggressive user profiling via browser tags.