Fingerprinters collect information about the device you're accessing the internet on and attempt to build up a profile of the device. Mozilla's Firefox will soon block Fingerprinters by default, ...

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Mozilla has announced that upcoming versions of Firefox will block all cross-site tracking, slow tracking scripts, and malicious miner and fingerprinting scripts by default. These new features will be ...

The latest release of Mozilla's Firefox browser will now block third-party tracking cookies by default. The privacy protection arrived Tuesday in Firefox 67.0.1. "When it comes to privacy, default ...

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The latest version of Firefox automatically blocks autoplaying videos with sound and brings other new features to Mozilla's popular web browser. Credit: leon neal/AFP/Getty Images Execute Firefox 66.

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Mozilla today announced that its Firefox browser will soon by default automatically block all attempts at cross-site tracking. There are three parts to this strategy. Starting with version 63, which ...