Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created
Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created
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
I'm surprised this isn't already a thing for decades but ok.
62It is already a thing for 2 years, since this is just an update to an old blog post to say that they'll do even more now.
Aside from that, it wasn't a thing, because as per the usual something on the web breaks when you change behavior like that, because some webpages rely on third-party cookies to provide their core functionality.
Someone (in this case the Tor Browser devs) had to come up with a way to have third-party cookies
and eat them, toobut isolate them from the third-party cookies that got created on other webpages.
On the technical side, this is called "first-party isolation", and basically each domain you browse to gets its own cookie jar to store first- and third-party cookies in.25Cookie jar... I will use that term from now on
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Right? When I first started learning web dev (just a bit) I thought cookies were like that, quarantined to each website. Its insane that it hasnt been like that for this long
24Well, they were already quarantined to each website, but if that same website got embedded in half of all websites, that still enables a lot of tracking. So now they're also quarantined to each website and the website it's embedded in, if any.
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Another Firefox W
35June 14, 2022
17Updated Aug. 28, 2024
46That's great, but what's the update? The Lemmy cross-posts from two years ago have the same title.
update: I read the post and the last paragraph talks about the full blocking of third-party cookies as a thing that's "starting in 2024" (future tense). So my best guess is it's that, but whatever the August 28th update was could have cleared all this up.
22That's today!
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Updated Aug. 28, 2024.
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Still waiting for it on mobile
12Agreed. It's desperately needed on mobile
4Apparently that finally happened while we weren't looking. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-androids-new-privacy-feature-total-cookie-protection-stops-companies-from-keeping-tabs-on-your-moves/
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Double upvote
5Nononoooo! You gotta triple because double makes it neutral!
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