Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by amenod on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:47AM (#25917983)

Good job Mozilla! Do what Google never will - put users' privacy front and center.

On a sidenote, I might now re-enable cache that I kept disabled (well - cleared on exit) because of supercookies. I don't care that much if a single page tracks me, but I _really_ don't want Google to track me across sites. If Firefox protected me against that.. they would have one very grateful user. :)

EDIT: this also highlights why Google is so invested in Chrome - they can make sure that privacy doesn't interfere with their money-making machine. They really are brilliant. Brilliantly evil.

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by sanxiyn on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:49AM (#25918023)

Eh, Google was first to implement this: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/10/http-cache....

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by amenod on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:58AM (#25918181)

So? Mozilla should still catch up (if/where needed) and surpass Google on all privacy fronts. The goal should be that Google can't track Firefox users in default configuration - rest assured, this will never happen with Chrome/Chromium/Edge, and probably not with any other Chrome-base browser either.

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by livvelupp on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @01:02PM (#25919094)

Thank you, now i am resting assured.

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by ahupp on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:52AM (#25918062)

From the article: " These impacts are similar to those reported by the Chrome team for similar"

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