Wow that’s amazing I didn’t know that, and I’ve been using Firefox in like forever.
I just checked my browser settings, and sure there it was: edit menu -> settings -> privacy and security
And it was enabled just like the page you linked writes it’s supposed to be. 👍
I have no idea when that feature was added, I never noticed any negative results from it. Everything works like it’s supposed to, like digital signature, banking, and a number of special sites that use cookies to make it easier to use them.
Nice to know I don’t always have to use private windows to avoid cookie snooping between sites.
Another win for Firefox! 😀 😎 👍
Cookies can contain fingerprints, but they’re also used for a bunch of other things, like keeping you logged in, remembering your shopping cart rather than clearing it every page load, storing preferences, remembering if your device has a high DPI screen (so a fresh page load knows to serve higher quality images), etc. Anything where small amounts of data have to be persisted and shared across both the client-side and server-side. They’re not always evil.
If your device has a high DPI screen, I would hope they would be able to determine that each time rather than have to take up storage space on MY device recalling that fact.
Wow that’s amazing I didn’t know that, and I’ve been using Firefox in like forever.
I just checked my browser settings, and sure there it was: edit menu -> settings -> privacy and security
And it was enabled just like the page you linked writes it’s supposed to be. 👍
I have no idea when that feature was added, I never noticed any negative results from it. Everything works like it’s supposed to, like digital signature, banking, and a number of special sites that use cookies to make it easier to use them.
Nice to know I don’t always have to use private windows to avoid cookie snooping between sites.
Another win for Firefox! 😀 😎 👍
Unfortunately, cookies are passé now. Have fun:
Am I Unique
Since You Arrived
I think browsers need to start fighting back with fake intelligence.
Those two links are talking about fingerprinting.
Cookies can contain fingerprints, but they’re also used for a bunch of other things, like keeping you logged in, remembering your shopping cart rather than clearing it every page load, storing preferences, remembering if your device has a high DPI screen (so a fresh page load knows to serve higher quality images), etc. Anything where small amounts of data have to be persisted and shared across both the client-side and server-side. They’re not always evil.
Well, yes, of course, but the context here was the evil kind of cookies.
If your device has a high DPI screen, I would hope they would be able to determine that each time rather than have to take up storage space on MY device recalling that fact.
I don’t see it on mobile unfortunately.
I see it on mine. Look at the top option underneath the Enhanced Tracking Protection menu (click it to open that menu). It is on by default - nice!
Ahhhhh I didn’t see that. The label isn’t clear if you’re skimming. Thanks!