What Firefox’s new privacy settings mean for you

[JMH]

Mozilla recently introduced a patch into its Firefox browser that blocks third-party cookies, and it’s an interesting, long-awaited development. The change stops third parties from putting cookies on your machine unless you’ve ever visited their website, which stops one of the easiest and most direct ways that users are tracked. This third party cookie blocking is something that Safari already does, but according to Jonathan Mayer (the privacy expert who got Mozilla to make this change), Firefox’s patch is “a slightly relaxed version of the Safari policy.”

What Firefox?s new privacy settings mean for you

 

[LilBambi]

Very handy comparison in the article.

Nice to see that Mozilla has done more than they did before but like with Google Chrome, Mozilla does have a vested interest in allowing some forms of tracking by default. Google and Mozilla make money on advertising too.