Recently Mozilla has released Firefox 65 with redesigned content blocking section in Settings which offer standard, custom and strict blocking options to control user privacy. The enhanced tracking or cross-site tracking protection isn’t enabled by default, doing so may break websites, keeping in this mind, Mozilla is cautiously enabling the features one bye one for users. According to a design spec in the bug, Mozilla is working on blocking crypto mining miners and fingerprinters in Firefox 67.
fingerprinters cryptominers blocked in Firefox
Once fingerprinters and cryptominers are enabled in custom mode (see the third screenshot), then only you can able to see them blocked in content blocking sub panel in control center UI of for a web page.
This is the main bug -“add support for default blocking of fingerprinting and cryptomining subcategories of the Tracking protection”
According to the Firefox release calendar, Firefox 67 will be released on May 14, 2019.
In coming days, you can expect the company to enable fingerprinting and cryptomining content blocking features by default in Nightly by the changing the below preference values to true to in about:config, atm, by doing so we’re not seeing blockers shown in the image.
privacy.
privacy.
What’s your take on this? [h/t Soeren]
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