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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 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.



> 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.


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.


The gp has clarified their comment, since that time. Snark is beneath you.


By the time I posted anything, the post clearly referred ITP.

You were ignoring that nine hours later.


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.


What about the tracking prevention that Private Mode has had since FF 42 or so?


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]




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