Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default | The Mozilla Blog
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Updated Aug. 28, 2024. Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the
  • ArchRecord@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    For those who don’t care to read the full article:

    This basically just confines any cookies generated on a page, to just that page.

    So, instead of a cookie from, say, Facebook, being stored on site A, then requested for tracking purposes on site B, each individual site would be sent its own separate Facebook cookie, that only gets used on that site, preventing it from tracking you anywhere outside of the specific site you got it from in the first place.

    • peopleproblems@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Hahahahaha so it doesn’t break anything that still relies on cookies, but neuters the ability to share them.

      That’s awesome