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Mozilla beefs up anti-cross-site monitoring in Firefox, as Chrome nonetheless lags on privateness

Mozilla has further beefed up anti-tracking measures in its Firefox browser. In a blog post the day past it presented that Firefox 86 has an extra layer of anti-cookie monitoring built into the enhanced monitoring protection (ETP) strict mode — which it’s calling “Total Cookie Protection…
Mozilla has further beefed up anti-tracking measures in its Firefox browser. In a blog post yesterday it announced that Firefox 86 has an extra layer of anti-cookie tracking built into the enhanced tracking protection (ETP) strict mode — which it’s calling “Total Cookie Protection…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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