Firefox Makes Total Cookie Protection a Default to All Users

[engine]

Firefox is making its total Cookie Protection a default to all desktop users, and Windows, Mac and Linux from June 14, 2022.

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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[Dimitri]

Peace first, then ...

This should have been like that since a very long time. I don't know why it took so long. However, it's only solving a tiny part of privacy protection.

[engine]

As I understand it, they were testing it through the optional introduction earlier in the year.

[not2easy]

They did announce it earlier. I rarely use it because it lumps all cookies together, whether they might be settings, preferences or tracking type. You can't browse your favorite places with all of them off. They have been offering anonymity and/or VPN for places you don't want to share anything like IP and location or language settings.

[engine]

I rarely use it because it lumps all cookies together, whether they might be settings, preferences or tracking type.

This solves that issue, methinks.