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Re:Alternatives to Google Products by systoll on Monday June 11, 2018 @01:17AM (#17282001)
Firefox has an option to block all third party cookies in the manner similar to Safari 1-10's default behaviour. And like everything else, it lets you clear all cookies at once, or manually look through the cookies to clear them.

It does not have a feature analogous to safari 11+'s tracking prevention.

Re:Alternatives to Google Products by IncRnd on Monday June 11, 2018 @08:41AM (#17283720)
> It does not have a feature analogous to safari 11+'s tracking prevention.

I never said that it did... I wrote that firefox has had the ability to block cookies automatically for years, which it has had. My response was not a comparison between the browsers but a statement of one particular feature that was mentioned. I simply said that what had been stated by the gp was also available in Firefox.

Re:Alternatives to Google Products by systoll on Monday June 11, 2018 @01:59PM (#17286715)
When you wrote 'like that', I assumed that you meant 'like that'.

> I simply said that what had been stated by the gp was also available in Firefox.

Given that the gp referred to ITP... no, it's not.

Re:Alternatives to Google Products by IncRnd on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:05PM (#17287414)
The gp has clarified their comment, since that time. Snark is beneath you.
Re:Alternatives to Google Products by systoll on Monday June 11, 2018 @07:03PM (#17289379)
By the time I posted anything, the post clearly referred ITP.

You were ignoring that nine hours later.

Re:Alternatives to Google Products by IncRnd on Monday June 11, 2018 @07:22PM (#17289474)
The clarification was to add ITP.

Disqus is over that way, if you want to keep arguing without a reason and without reading what others write.

Re:Alternatives to Google Products by majewsky on Monday June 11, 2018 @04:01AM (#17282598)
What about the tracking prevention that Private Mode has had since FF 42 or so?
Re:Alternatives to Google Products by systoll on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:45AM (#17283207)
Firefox’s tracking protection is the same feature as Safari’s content blockers. [the defaults differ, though], and prevents specific listed domains from loading anything. Except when it turns out blocking them breaks too much. Like Youtube embeds.

Safari’s tracking prevention applies to things that do wind up getting loaded, and limits access to their own cookies/context. [kind of like loading all those embeds in seperate private sessions, even though they're on the same page]