Great news for Mozilla Firefox users as the internet browser rolled out its latest tracking protection features that make web surfing a lot safer. The new Enhanced Tracking Protection will automatically shield your privacy and ensure that your sensitive and otherwise personal data remains safe from theft and misuse.
Almost every other site is embedded with trackers and harmful scripts, and blocking them usually results in breaking site functionality. However, with Firefox’s latest tracking features, you can block all such harmful spyware and malware without experiencing the slightest glitch in performance. Hence, you enjoy a seamless browsing experience while also being adequately protected from any breach of privacy.
A lot is going on in the original post by Firefox, but we’ll summarize what it all amounts to right here.
To begin, as a Firefox user, you’ll notice that your address bar now shows a shield-shaped icon.
It is also important to note exactly what Firefox is blocking as part of its new Privacy and Tracking Protection. Firefox collaborates with a company called Disconnect to identify trackers and blocks all such activity.
To know specific details about what is being blocked, you can click the Purple Shield on the address bar, which will open a new panel showing you all the details for that particular webpage. So, you’ll see three sections on the panel.
Note: You can set your privacy preferences to ‘Strict’ in order to block those scripts that were allowed on ‘Standard’ settings. However, that’ll affect your browsing experience on such websites.
You can change your Enhanced Protection Settings by clicking the shield icon to the left of your address bar and click ‘Protection Settings’ on the subsequent panel. Doing so will take you to the ‘Privacy and Security Tab’.
Here, you can select your favored settings, whether ‘Standard’, ‘Strict’, or even ‘Custom‘.
However, suppose you experience difficulty in accessing websites or face troubles with a site’s performance due to these additional privacy protection measures. In that case, you can always disable Enhanced Trackers Protection for that particular site.
Just click the shield icon on the web page that is bothering you, and toggle the blue switch at the top of the panel to disable protection for that particular site while blocking all other websites that you open on your browser. The website will immediately reload with all the trackers unblocked and function smoothly.
By Gary Bernstein