Firefox boosts privacy by giving ‘total cookie protection’ to all users by default
by Corin Faife from The Verge - All Posts on (#60BE5)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Firefox browser, already known for its privacy protections, is about to become even more private thanks to a new cookie-restricting feature announced by Mozilla on Tuesday.
The design change, labeled Total Cookie Protection," aims to give enhanced protection against online tracking by limiting the ability of websites to read cookies created by third-party services. According to a blog post from Mozilla, access to any given cookie will be restricted to the website that deposited the cookie in a user's browser, so a cookie created by one website or service will not be readable by other websites that a user visits.
Mozilla's blog post describes the new feature in terms of a separate cookie jar" for each website, preventing trackers...