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Old 15th June 2022
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Default Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default To All Users Worldwide

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Starting today, Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to all Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the most private and secure major browser available across Windows and Mac. Total Cookie Protection is Firefox's strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created, thus preventing tracking companies from using these cookies to track your browsing from site to site.
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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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Old 16th June 2022
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What it means for extensions like Multi-account containers? Are they only relevant if I can log in to two accounts at the same time in the same service?
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Old 16th June 2022
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I'm disappointed to see Mozilla spreading misinformation in order to garner repuation, but I suppose that's to be expected considering their past; they seem to use privacy as a selling point without committing to it. Cookies, while they still can and are used for tracking purposes, are largely a deprecated mode of user tracking. The interconnected network of tracking on today's Web is much more advanced than it was a decade ago--blocking cookies or "containing" them isn't going to do anything when first party ECMAscript trackers can differentiate people using the literally hundreds of different methods now currently in active use.
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