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> biggest things you can do for your privacy is ad-blocking / cookie cleaning Very true. But there is no problem with apple, in fact Safari is first browser th

> biggest things you can do for your privacy is ad-blocking / cookie cleaning Very true. But there is no problem with apple, in fact Safari is first browser that is clearing cookies - ITP(2). I use uBlock Origin on Safari and Private browsing - no cookies at all.

IncRnd 8y ago
Firefox has been able to clear cookies like that for years without any extensions.
- systoll 8y ago
  Firefox has an option to block all third party cookies in the manner similar to Safari 1-10's default behaviour. And like everything else, it lets you clear all cookies at once, or manually look through the cookies to clear them. It does not have a feature analogous to safari 11+'s tracking prevention.
  - majewsky 8y ago
    What about the tracking prevention that Private Mode has had since FF 42 or so?
    - systoll 8y ago
      Firefox’s tracking protection is the same feature as Safari’s content blockers. [the defaults differ, though], and prevents specific listed domains from loading anything. Except when it turns out blocking them breaks too much. Like Youtube embeds. Safari’s tracking prevention applies to things that do wind up getting loaded, and limits access to their own cookies/context. [kind of like loading all those embeds in seperate private sessions, even though they're on the same page]
  - IncRnd 8y ago
    > It does not have a feature analogous to safari 11+'s tracking prevention. I never said that it did... I wrote that firefox has had the ability to block cookies automatically for years, which it has had. My response was not a comparison between the browsers but a statement of one particular feature that was mentioned. I simply said that what had been stated by the gp was also available in Firefox.
    - systoll 8y ago
      When you wrote 'like that', I assumed that you meant 'like that'. > I simply said that what had been stated by the gp was also available in Firefox. Given that the gp referred to ITP... no, it's not.
      - IncRnd 8y ago
        The gp has clarified their comment, since that time. Snark is beneath you.
        systoll 8y ago
        By the time I posted anything, the post clearly referred ITP. You were ignoring that nine hours later.
        IncRnd 8y ago
        The clarification was to add ITP. Disqus is over that way, if you want to keep arguing without a reason and without reading what others write.
- auslander 8y ago
  Usind default settings or manually?
  - IncRnd 8y ago
    Neither. It's an option in the preferences.
    - auslander 8y ago
      Is that option enabled in default installation of firefox? Sorry, I must have specified that in Safari ITP is enabled by default, and this is important for non-tech people.
      - IncRnd 8y ago
        No. It hasn't been enabled by default in my experience. It isn't the exact same as the Safari technology. Firefox lets you block "3rd party cookies" or "all cookies" from the privacy pane of preferences. I've always "set it and forget it". The assumption is that many tracking cookies will come from 3rd party websites.
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      - systoll 8y ago
        The default is 'allow everything' You can change a setting to block third party cookies. This gets you similar treatment of cookies as was the default in safari 1-10. Safari 11 still blocks third party cookies by default, but has 'Intelligent Tracking Protection' as an additional filter on top of it. ITP blocks/limits certain uses of first-party cookies. Firefox has no analogous option. Either cookies are off, or all uses of first party cookies are allowed.

IncRnd 8y ago

Firefox has been able to clear cookies like that for years without any extensions.

systoll 8y ago
Firefox has an option to block all third party cookies in the manner similar to Safari 1-10's default behaviour. And like everything else, it lets you clear all cookies at once, or manually look through the cookies to clear them. It does not have a feature analogous to safari 11+'s tracking prevention.
- majewsky 8y ago
  What about the tracking prevention that Private Mode has had since FF 42 or so?
  - systoll 8y ago
    Firefox’s tracking protection is the same feature as Safari’s content blockers. [the defaults differ, though], and prevents specific listed domains from loading anything. Except when it turns out blocking them breaks too much. Like Youtube embeds. Safari’s tracking prevention applies to things that do wind up getting loaded, and limits access to their own cookies/context. [kind of like loading all those embeds in seperate private sessions, even though they're on the same page]
- IncRnd 8y ago
  > It does not have a feature analogous to safari 11+'s tracking prevention. I never said that it did... I wrote that firefox has had the ability to block cookies automatically for years, which it has had. My response was not a comparison between the browsers but a statement of one particular feature that was mentioned. I simply said that what had been stated by the gp was also available in Firefox.
  - systoll 8y ago
    When you wrote 'like that', I assumed that you meant 'like that'. > I simply said that what had been stated by the gp was also available in Firefox. Given that the gp referred to ITP... no, it's not.
    - IncRnd 8y ago
      The gp has clarified their comment, since that time. Snark is beneath you.
      - systoll 8y ago
        By the time I posted anything, the post clearly referred ITP. You were ignoring that nine hours later.
        IncRnd 8y ago
        The clarification was to add ITP. Disqus is over that way, if you want to keep arguing without a reason and without reading what others write.
auslander 8y ago
Usind default settings or manually?
- IncRnd 8y ago
  Neither. It's an option in the preferences.
  - auslander 8y ago
    Is that option enabled in default installation of firefox? Sorry, I must have specified that in Safari ITP is enabled by default, and this is important for non-tech people.
    - IncRnd 8y ago
      No. It hasn't been enabled by default in my experience. It isn't the exact same as the Safari technology. Firefox lets you block "3rd party cookies" or "all cookies" from the privacy pane of preferences. I've always "set it and forget it". The assumption is that many tracking cookies will come from 3rd party websites.
      - deleted 8y ago
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    - systoll 8y ago
      The default is 'allow everything' You can change a setting to block third party cookies. This gets you similar treatment of cookies as was the default in safari 1-10. Safari 11 still blocks third party cookies by default, but has 'Intelligent Tracking Protection' as an additional filter on top of it. ITP blocks/limits certain uses of first-party cookies. Firefox has no analogous option. Either cookies are off, or all uses of first party cookies are allowed.