Mozilla is postponing its controversial plan for Firefox to block certain third-party cookies by default -- but the company's CTO Brandon Eich urged users not to interpret the delay as a sign that Mozilla is going soft on protecting user privacy.
The
announcement comes
one month after the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) criticized Mozilla's plan, asserting that without third-party cookies, the Internet could become a "vast wasteland of irrelevant and repetitive ads" and "thousands of small businesses ... will be forced to close their doors."
Mozilla announced a patch for Firefox
back in February, designed to blocks cookies from sites a user has not yet visited while allowing them from sites a user has browsed previously. In testing the feature, Mozilla found too many instances of false positives and false negatives that proved disruptive to the browsing experience, according to Eich.
