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Re:Help Test Private Browsing with Tracking Protection in Fi... by abhv on Thursday September 24, 2015 @05:11AM (#10270574)
Would be great if you could explain exactly how this differs from using an ad/tracking blocker, e.g. Disrupt or mu-block.
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Re:Help Test Private Browsing with Tracking Protection in Fi... by aroch on Thursday September 24, 2015 @08:53AM (#10271285)
See the whitepaper[1] and blogs by Monica and Mozilla[2].

It works like a combination of safebrowsing and Disconnect. Basically they cache a list of "bad" URIs and block them at request-time

[1] https://kontaxis.github.io/trackingprotectionfirefox/resourc...

[2] monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.com

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