Firefox Will Let Users Block Tracking Protection Selectively With October Update
Jul. 24, 2018Mozilla grabbed the world’sattentionwhen it launched the Firefox Quantum browser last year. With the launch of areworked Firefox, many features including Tracking Protection, earlier limited to In-Private mode, also graduated into the standard browsing mode.
Now, Mozilla intends to grant its usersgreater control over specific blocks of contentwhich might be tracking more information than users care to reveal, or those which might hinder or slow down browsing. TheContent Blocking feature will be implemented with Firefox 63which is expected to go live in October this year.
This Content Blocking feature will be placed in the information panel for an individual website which can be accessed by clicking on the “i” next to the address bar. At the same time, theTracking Protection in Firefox remains intactand users will be allowed to disable tracking for an individual website while the feature remains active globally.
Alternatively, users will have more control over the feature in the Privacy preferences in Firefox. Here, users will be able to restrict the Content Blocking feature to private windows and even switch it off completely. The panel will allow users to manage exceptions as well as monitor and organize the block list. Besides the feature to block tracking, Firefox users will also receive an option toblock content which takes too much time to loador uses too many resources.
Meanwhile, the tracking protection feature will also get more diverse and users will have independent options totoggle tracking on or off for advertisements, analytics, fingerprints, social media, and even crypto-mining. At the same time, Mozilla is working to make the feature more easily discoverable and adding it to the address bar – just like Chrome – would make sense. Together with selective content blocking, the feature should make browsing more efficient and make users feel much more in control with the launch of Firefox 63.
