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Updated Aug. 28, 2024. Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the
  • kbal@fedia.io
    391·
    4 months ago

    This has been going around all over lemmy and I still had no idea what the actual news (if any) is supposed to be. So I did a diff against the 2022 version of this Mozilla blog entry. The differences:

    • Changed “Starting today, Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection to all Firefox users worldwide” to “Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection to more Firefox users worldwide.”

    • Added mention of Android.

    • Changed “recent stories” to just “stories”, since the reporting on this is no longer recent.

    • The somewhat whimsical image from the 2022 version has been replaced with one that to me looks more generic and illustrates the technology less clearly, with more irrelevant detail in the alt text and no credit for the artist.

    • Changed “Today’s release” to “The release”.

    • 2022’s “Bringing Total Cookie Protection to all Firefox users is our next step towards creating a better internet, one where your privacy is not optional” changed to "While bringing Total Cookie Protection to more Firefox users has been one significant step in this journey, we have still kept our sights on an even safer, even better internet. And starting in 2024, all our users can look forward to Firefox blocking even more third party cookies. That’s right; we are taking big swings to adopt new cookie partitioning and clearing mechanisms so that users can browse with fewer cookies that won’t stick around as long and will result in an even better browsing experience. Just another step on our road towards creating a better internet where your privacy is not optional.

    • xthexder@l.sw0.com
      26·
      4 months ago

      Really the only difference is that it’s on by default now. It was an optional feature before.

        • xthexder@l.sw0.com
          4·
          4 months ago

          My Firefox says it now has Total Cookie Protection, and at least the notification about it wasn’t there before. Some other comment I read said that it was part of the Strict privacy setting before (i.e. not the default), but if you want more of a source then that, I lost the comment.

          Edit: I was reading about this on a different copy of this post: https://lemmy.world/post/19163486

          • kbal@fedia.io
            2·
            4 months ago

            Oh, that makes sense. Setting it to “strict” mode may be the thing I vaguely remember doing to make sure it was active in 2022.

  • stationary_melon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    351·
    4 months ago

    Damn, these are some pretty great news. I block third party cookies by default on uBlock Origin anyway, but sometimes you have no choice but to enable them for the website to function. I’m glad Mozilla is implementing this.