{"id":2003,"date":"2019-09-03T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2021-03-21T13:17:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T20:17:41","slug":"firefox-69-by-default-blocks-third-party-tracking-cookies-and-cryptominers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/firefox-69-by-default-blocks-third-party-tracking-cookies-and-cryptominers\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 69 By Default Blocks Third-Party Tracking Cookies and Cryptominers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June this year, Mozilla enabled the Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) setting by default only for its new users who downloaded a fresh copy of firefox. Leaving old users with options to either enable the new feature manually or wait for the company to activate it for all users. Finally, the wait is over.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the official launch of Firefox 69, ETP will automatically turned on by default for all web users as a standard-setting in the Firefox browser, blocking third-party tracking cookies and cryptocurrency mining scripts.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/3tp58cIWsK2FEDWZ6LC26UNWoDUuVBbYGTnrLtWCwqrVk0AiP12PFROQHB1FKpYBUeUUI15YEAIcITIVjBoIvsJlOdh9T1xGBkuJ0LTSNhbG1tuftfZAAmpNvMDft7Qs7lR6oZ5F\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blocks Third-Party Tracking Cookies<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By default Firefox 69 will now block all known third-party tracking cookies that track and collect data regarding users&#8217; activity across multiple sites \u2014which are used as ad profiling by the companies without your knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blocks Cryptocurrency Miners<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firefox 69 also by default blocked cryptocurrency mining scripts, which essentially use your hardware\u2019s processing power to mine cryptocurrencies\u2014 without your knowledge or consent. Which results in&nbsp;reduced battery life and negatively affecting performance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adobe Flash Disabled by Default<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firefox 69 additional improvements have also disabled Adobe Flash Player by default in the web browser and will now ask for your permission before turning on Flash on websites, improves performance on Windows 10, and better battery life on macOS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Source:  <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/hardfork\/2019\/09\/03\/nice-firefox-69-now-blocks-cryptominers-and-tracking-cookies-by-default\">https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/hardfork\/2019\/09\/03\/nice-firefox-69-now-blocks-cryptominers-and-tracking-cookies-by-default<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June this year, Mozilla enabled the Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) setting by default only for its new users who downloaded a fresh copy of firefox. Leaving old users with options to either enable the new feature manually or wait for the company to activate it for all users. Finally, the wait is over.&nbsp;&nbsp; With&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/firefox-69-by-default-blocks-third-party-tracking-cookies-and-cryptominers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firefox 69 By Default Blocks Third-Party Tracking Cookies and Cryptominers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3613,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/3613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}