Recently we’ve reported Firefox Nightly blocks Social Media Trackers on websites and shield icon in the address bar shows them in the protections panel if social widgets are detected on websites. Mozilla now updated the Enhanced Tracking Protection preferences for Standard, Strict and Custom tracking protection modes to reflect those in Firefox 70.
Mozilla has renamed Tracking Protection or Content blocking mode to “Enhanced Tracking Protection”. The company has updated the Tracking Protection preferences in “Privacy & Security” Settings in Nightly to show social media trackers and cross-site tracking cookie items.
Do note, Social trackers item will be shown only if you’ve enabled privacy.trackingprotection.socialtracking.annotate.enabled pref in about:config and cross-site tacking cookies item will be shown if privacy.socialtracking.block_cookies.enabled set to true.
Standard TP now blocks the following trackers
- Social media trackers,
- Cross-site tracking cookies,
- Tracking content in Private Windows,
- Cryptominers
- Fingerprinters.
Strict Tracking Protection blocks all trackers Standard mode does, including the Tracking Content in all Windows.
Custom TP, apart from Fingerprinters and Cryptominers, blocks cross-site and social media tracking cookies and tracking Content in all Windows.
As said above, Social media trackers in Strict/Standard and custom coookie settings available from drop down of “cross-site and social-media tracking cookies” are visible only when privacy.trackingprotection.socialtracking.annotate.enabled is set to true.
