đ Changing Our Approach To Anti-tracking
Mozilla: "Anyone who isn't an expert on the internet would be hard-pressed to explain how tracking on the internet actually works. Some of the negative effects of unchecked tracking are easy to notice, namely eerily-specific targeted advertising and a loss of performance on the web. However, many of the harms of unchecked data collection are completely opaque to users and experts alike, only to be revealed piecemeal by major data breaches. In the near future, Firefox will â by default â protect users by blocking tracking while also offering a clear set of controls to give our users more choice over what information they share with sites."
Since Chrome was introduced by Google ten years ago, I canât recall ever using another browser for longer than about a week, and only then to test out new updates or similar.
As Iâve been paying a bit more attention to privacy and related issues over the past few months, itâs quite convenient that Mozilla is updating its Firefox browser to block various types of tracking by default. Even though Iâm a big fan of different Google products, it doesnât hurt to look beyond what I usually use. Yesterday, after many years, I once again opened Mozillaâs website and downloaded Firefox.