![]() In October 2018, Firefox 63 arrived with Enhanced Tracking Protection, blocking cookies and storage access from third-party trackers. ![]() Over the last year and a half, Mozilla has been ramping up Firefox’s privacy chops. Google has announced plans to block fingerprinting in Chrome, but Firefox beat it to the punch (and Safari got there first). It works independently of cookies and lets advertisers, companies, and governments build a picture of an individual over time by tracking signals from their machine’s configuration, such as time zone, screen resolution, HTTP headers, operating system type, the fonts the user has installed, and more.īrowser makers are fighting back against the practice. ![]() Fingerprinting is a popular mechanism for tracking web users as they move across the internet inside a browser.
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