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Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default

to more users worldwide

Alan has found a follow up article to the presentation he did a little while ago that covered tracking cookies.so
we have included it in this months newsletter.

Take back your privacy

Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the
most private and secure major browser available across Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. Total Cookie Pro-
tection is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created,
thus preventing tracking companies from using these cookies to track your browsing from site to site.

Whether it’s applying for a student loan, seeking treatment or advice through a health site, or browsing an
online dating app, massive amounts of your personal information is online — and this data is leaking all over
the web. The hyper-specific-to-you ads you so often see online are made possible by cookies that are used to
track your behavior across sites and build an extremely sophisticated profile of who you are.

Recent stories (including an excellent Last Week Tonight episode) have shown how robust, yet under-the-
radar, the data selling economy is and how easy it is for anyone to buy your data, combine it with more data
about you and use it for a variety of purposes, even beyond advertising.

It’s an alarming reality — the possibility that your every move online is being watched, tracked and shared —
and one that’s antithetical to the open web we at Mozilla have strived to build. That’s why we developed Total
Cookie Protection to help keep you safe online.