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Old 4th September 2018, 10:16   #1
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Block trackers and get more fruit

Big cheeses in the Mozilla foundation have announced that its Firefox browser will soon block web trackers by default.

The move, which will involve a series of updates over the course of the next few months, is among one of the most proactive approaches to protect consumer privacy that it’s ever employed and will make a key difference between it and Google’s Chrome.

Writing in its bog, a spokesMozilla said: “Anyone who isn’t an expert on the internet would be hard-pressed to explain how tracking on the internet actually works. Some of the negative effects of unchecked tracking are easy to notice, namely eerily-specific targeted advertising and a loss of performance on the web. However, many of the harms of unchecked data collection are completely opaque to users and experts alike, only to be revealed piecemeal by major data breaches. Mozilla will block trackers that slow page load times and strip cookies from web content "

Firefox users will have a series of controls to choose which information to share with which websites. In addition to protecting consumer privacy, Mozilla said this will improve performance, as many web trackers inflate page load times.

In May a Ghostery study found that more than 50 percent of all time spent loading webpages was dedicated to loading third-party trackers designed to follow users around the web, collect data, and hand that data over to advertisers.

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