{"id":16736,"date":"2018-10-23T22:45:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a089e1e9-d2e3-40ab-b607-c5a072da273c"},"modified":"2018-10-23T22:45:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:45:44","slug":"firefox-63-released-with-always-on-tracking-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/firefox-63-released-with-always-on-tracking-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 63 released with ‘always-on’ tracking protection"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mozilla today started rolling out Firefox 63 to its userbase. This release comes with many new features, but the biggest is the overhauled Tracking Protection feature that Mozilla first added to Firefox a few years back.<\/p>\n

Initially, Tracking Protection worked by blocking ad trackers during Private Browsing sessions only. The feature was expanded in subsequent years to also block scripts associated with social buttons, analytics services, fingerprinting attempts, and for a short while, even some in-browser cryptocurrency-mining services.<\/p>\n

The feature got a significant boost with the release of Firefox 57 when Mozilla also gave users the ability to enable Tracking Protection all the time, not just Private Browsing sessions.<\/p>\n

With today’s Firefox 63 release, Mozilla has kept a promise it made earlier this year in May<\/a> when it pledged to revamp the feature and enable it by default for all users.<\/p>\n

Rebranded as Enhanced Tracking Protection<\/a> or Content Blocking, this feature works by blocking all “trackers,” as defined by the Disconnect.me blocklist<\/a>, which Mozilla has been using since the feature’s earliest days.<\/p>\n

In a blog post<\/a> today, Mozilla also said that it plans to take the Tracking Protection feature to the next level with the ability to block not only JavaScript code, but also cookie files.<\/p>\n

This option is already available in Firefox 63, but Mozilla plans to turn it on for everyone starting with Firefox 65, scheduled for release in January 2019.<\/p>\n

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With today’s deployment of its Enhanced Tracking Protection feature, Firefox now joins the ranks of Opera and Chrome as browsers that ship with default settings that block ads and online trackers.<\/p>\n

But this isn’t the only new thing in Firefox 63. Today’s release also includes more:<\/p>\n