Thursday, November 19, 2015

Tracking Protection Officially Supported in Firefox 42

Mozilla officially started supported Tracking Protection in Private Browsing mode with Firefox 42, which launched a couple of weeks ago. Congratulations to everyone who worked on the launch! The onboarding looks awesome and the unified UI is a nice touch, although I have to admit a preference for the original, engineer-designed marketing aesthetics pictured below.



Even outside of Private Browsing mode, you can still take advantage of Tracking Protection by going to about:config and turning on privacy.trackingprotection.enabled. This behavior has been supported for over a year since Firefox 34, so it's great to see Mozilla making this more usable by turning it on in Private Browsing mode.

I hope that Mozilla continues to use its products to challenge the notion that we owe our eyeballs, our computing resources and our entire browsing history to the ad industry, with no questions asked.

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6 comments:

  1. ValentinNovember 19, 2015 at 11:10 AM

    Thanks for all the great work you did to make this happen!

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    1. MonicaNovember 19, 2015 at 11:31 PM

      Thank you for all your bug reports! They were very helpful :)

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  2. AnonymousNovember 19, 2015 at 2:46 PM

    It works like charm.
    Thanks Monica and everyone for making this happen!

    I hope in the future, we could enable TP with a single click - going to about:config can be challenging for many.

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    1. MonicaNovember 19, 2015 at 11:34 PM

      From your mouth to Chris Beard's ear.

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    2. AnonymousNovember 25, 2015 at 12:03 PM

      Then we should expect this very soon! He looks like a person who values choice and control:
      "Mozilla exists to bring choice, control and opportunity to everyone." (Chris Beard)
      https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/07/30/an-open-letter-to-microsofts-ceo-dont-roll-back-the-clock-on-choice-and-control/

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    3. MonicaDecember 2, 2015 at 2:04 PM

      Anon @ Nov 25, you should have seen some of the internal propaganda I made when trying to launch this project a year ago.

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