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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

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.

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.