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The post Firefox will protect your privacy by blocking cross-site tracking by default appeared first on BardTech . Firefox is one of the best web browsers for the privacy-conscious. With a litany of privacy protecting features along with a great development team behind it, it’s right up there as being one of the best browsers available. Not just on Android either, but on your laptop or desktop computer as well. Mozilla has now announced that a number of new features will be introduced in the coming months to enhance your privacy. Those features include the blocking of cross-site trackers by default. Cross-site trackers don’t only pose a privacy concern, but they can slow down page-loading as well. In fact, a study by Ghostery (via DigitalTrends ) has shown that 55.4% of the average time to load a site was spent loading trackers. While it’s not such a big deal for those who have fast internet connections, those with slower ones will struggle to load modern sites. Disabling tra...

The post Firefox will soon start blocking trackers by default appeared first on BardTech . Mozilla today announced that its Firefox browser will soon automatically block all attempts at cross-site tracking by default. There’s three parts to this strategy. Starting with version 63, which is currently in testing in the browser’s nightly release channel, Firefox will block all slow-loading trackers (with ads being the biggest offender here). Those are trackers that take more than five seconds to load. Starting with Firefox 65, the browser will also strip all cookies and block all storage access from third-party trackers. In addition, Mozilla is also working on blocking cryptomining scripts and trackers that fingerprint users. As usual, the timeline could still change, depending on how these first tests work out. “In the physical world, users wouldn’t expect hundreds of vendors to follow them from store to store, spying on the products they look at or purchase,” Mozilla’s Nick Nguyen...