Note: Read about improvements to this technology in recent blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API. Today we’re happy to bring you Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0, or ITP 2.0. It builds upon ITP 1.0, which we released last year, and ITP 1.1, which was released in March, adding the Storage Access API. Removal of the 24 Hour Cookie Access Window ITP 2.0, as o

Note: Read about improvements to this technology in recent blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API. In June of last year, we announced Intelligent Tracking Prevention, or ITP. ITP is a privacy feature which detects domains that have the ability to track the user cross-site and either partitions or purges the associated website data. The biggest update to ITP so

Note: Read about improvements to this technology in recent blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API. The success of the web as a platform relies on user trust. Many users feel that trust is broken when they are being tracked and privacy-sensitive data about their web activity is acquired for purposes that they never agreed to. WebKit has long included features t

Threats to users’ privacy and security are growing. At Mozilla, we closely track these threats. We believe we have a duty to do everything we can to protect Firefox users and their data. We’re taking on the companies and organizations that want to secretly collect and sell user data. This is why we added tracking protection and created the Facebook container extension. And you’ll be seeing us do m

Facebook Container extension now includes Instagram and Facebook Messenger To help you control the amount of data Facebook can gather about you, we have updated the Facebook Container extension to include Instagram and Facebook Messenger. This way, users of these sites, can also benefit from the tracking protections of the Facebook Container. After releasing the Facebook Container extension, we re

Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked Our Multi-Account Containers extension has been a game changer for many users, letting them manage various parts of their online life without intermingling their accounts. To help Firefox users have more control of their data on Facebook, we’ve created the Facebook Container Extension. This extension helps you control more of y

Mozilla Fellow Hang Do Thi Duc joins us to share her Data Selfie art project. It collects the same basic info you provide to Facebook. Sharing this kind of data about yourself isn’t something we’d normally recommend. But, if you want to know what’s happening behind the scenes when you scroll through your Facebook feed, installing Data Selfie is worth considering. Use at your own risk. If you do, y

A Perspective: Firefox Quantum’s Tracking Protection Gives Users The Right To Be Curious In the physical world, we don’t wear our ID on our foreheads. This is convenient because we can walk around with a reasonable expectation of privacy and let our curiosity take us to interesting places. That shoe store you sauntered into because they had a pair that caught your eye has no idea who you are, wher