With its Total Cookies Protection function, Firefox seriously strengthens the privacy of its users, by limiting the action of cookies to their site of origin. A clever and effective technique to avoid tracking on the Web.
As we know, Mozilla has always been very attached to the respect of privacy. The famous foundation has even made it one of the main areas of development for its Firefox browser. And it is now taking a huge step forward to ensure even more privacy for its users with its Total Cookies Protection (TCP or Total Protection against Cookies in French) function. As she explains on his blog, this feature, which was previously only available in the “strict” mode of Enhanced Activity Tracking Protection in Firefox, is now enabled by default in the browser. And this systematic activation changes while avoiding rushed or dizzy Internet users from being tracked in their web browsing, by clicking a little too quickly on the famous “Accept all cookies” button when they arrive on a site.
Total Cookies Protection: a function to block trackers
The principle of this automatic protection is as clever as it is effective. It “simply” consists in limiting the action of cookies to their site of origin, by isolating them in a kind of hermetic boxes – “cookie boxes” as Mozilla calls them. Thus, each time a cookie is created by a site or an online service, a cookie is placed in the box assigned to it, without the possibility of consulting and extracting information stored in other boxes. In this way, no site can retrieve and exploit information linked to another. Smart!
This original mode of isolation should significantly limit the tracking and monitoring of activities on the Net, in particular by avoiding targeted advertisements, which are displayed on the pages thanks to the personal information collected by the tracking cookies, data which makes it possible to analyze the behavior of Internet users by drawing their digital portrait. The result of years of work and experimentation, this total protection against cookies strengthens the arsenal of Firefox by going much further than Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP), an anti-tracking feature that blocked tracers by relying on a list, which had drawbacks and limitations. Available now for new Firefox users, the Total Cookies Protection feature will be rolled out gradually by August 23 in all versions of the browser.