Preventing our personal data from being leaked on the Internet is essential. There are many reasons why they might try to collect our information. For example to include us in spam lists, send targeted advertising or even profit from selling it to third parties. Now Mozilla goes one step further to improve privacy. The new version of Firefox will block cross-site tracking for private browsing.
Firefox blocks tracking when browsing privately
The main browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox , offer certain functions to improve privacy. We can use, for example, the private or incognito mode to surf the net. However, until now Firefox did not automatically block tracking when browsing in this way.
This changes with the version of Mozilla Firefox 89 that has just been released. Now, Total Protection against cookies will be enabled by default when a user browses through private browsing mode.
This option, Total Protection against cookies, makes any site we visit keep its cookies separate and in this way prevent them from tracking us and generating user browsing profiles. Third party sites could not know what we have visited, what our tastes or interests are, etc.
Keep in mind that this function is not new. For some versions it was already available in Firefox. However, until now it had to be activated manually and it was not automatically available when browsing in an incognito window.
Improving privacy, a goal for Firefox
The Mozilla browser has always attached great importance to the issue of privacy . It has launched different features so that users correctly protect their personal data and do not have problems when browsing the network and that third parties can intercept them.
In the case of Total Cookie Protection, what it basically does is prevent the exchange of cookies between websites. Now with the new version of the browser, this is automatically applied to private windows. Firefox creates a container for cookies that is independent for each page we visit and they do not leave there.
This feature will block trackers, cookies, scripts or tracking pixels, for example. Cookies and cache will be deleted after each session and it also has protection against supercookies.
We can achieve all this simply by entering the private browsing of Mozilla Firefox , an alternative that we have available in all its versions. Preventing our data from being tracked on the Internet is very important. Even the operator can track us.
There are many tools that we can use to keep our security always present. Many types of antivirus, firewall and other programs that in one way or another can prevent the entry of malicious software that can also collect personal information. These data can be used for very different purposes, as we have mentioned. Some of them include collecting information to send Phishing attacks and the like with which we can steal passwords and affect our security.
