User protection is becoming increasingly important for companies. None of them wants to be seen as a company that ignores the privacy and security of its customers , as happened to Facebook . Perhaps that is why Firefox has incorporated important new features in its new version to ensure that protection.
Along the way, Enhanced Tracking Protection will be automatically activated for all users around the world as part of the standard browser settings. This also means that the feature will be enabled by default for new users. It will also block known third-party tracking cookies, all of which is available for Android devices and computers.
More than 20% of Firefox users now have Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled. Starting today, it is expected that the protection will reach 100% by default so that no company can profile consumers' behavior across websites without their consent.
"Enhanced tracking protection helps mitigate this threat and puts control of the online experience back in the hands of users," the company explained on its official blog. "This milestone marks an important step in our multi-year effort to provide stronger privacy protections for everyone who uses Firefox."
To find out if this protection really works, and you are being saved from the clutches of argentina phone number thousands of companies looking for your information , the company has incorporated a small green padlock icon in the address bar:
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have been blocked. They will only have to click on the shield, go to the Content Blocking section and then to Cookies . There is a list, called Blocking Tracking Cookies , where all the companies that have been banned appear. If at any time the user wants to remove the block from a specific site, they can do so:
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Protection beyond cookie tracking
"As part of this journey we rigorously tested, refined, and ultimately landed on a new anti-tracking approach that is critical to delivering on our promise of privacy and security as core aspects of your Firefox experience," they noted.
It's not just cookies that attempt to use users' information without their knowledge or consent , there are more entities. As Firefox reports, cryptominers access the computer's CPU - slowing it down and draining the battery - to generate cryptocurrency for someone else's benefit.
Although options to block cryptocurrency miners were already introduced in the Nightly and Beta versions, they now include this blocking in standard mode.