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Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default | The Mozilla Blog (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Take back your privacy

Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the most private and secure major browser available across Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.

What is Total Cookie Protection?

Total Cookie Protection works by creating a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit. Instead of allowing trackers to link up your behavior on multiple sites, they just get to see behavior on individual sites. 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 only that website. No other websites can reach into the cookie jars that don’t belong to them and find out what the other websites’ cookies know about you — giving you freedom from invasive ads and reducing the amount of information companies gather about you.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

What? I thought they already did this three years ago. How do I tell if I've got it already turned on? I seem to remember setting some kind of config flag but it doesn't seem easy to spot which one it was.

Edit: Oh, this is from 2022. What's changed since then seems unclear.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if all existing Cookies are automatically protected when this feature lands on release version. Or do we have to delete the old Cookies before update first, so they are created in a new Container?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile Google has backed out its Chrome plans to block third-party cookies: A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web

Instead of deprecating third-party cookies, we would introduce a new experience in Chrome that lets people make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing, and they’d be able to adjust that choice at any time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

informed choice

The cookie popups that litter the modern web today are a great example why this is probably a bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Idk why a 2 year old blog post is "news"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Updated Aug. 28, 2024.

And starting in 2024, all our users can look forward to Firefox blocking even more third party cookies.

In other words, it wasn't enabled worldwide by default. That's the update and headline of the news. Got it through RSS news feed directly from Mozilla Blog.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ooooh, thanks!