Mozilla Firefox gets new anti-fingerprinting defenses

Mozilla Firefox gets new anti-fingerprinting defenses

Mozilla is enhancing privacy features in Firefox 145 to further reduce user vulnerability to digital fingerprinting. The new protections, initially in Private Browsing Mode and Strict mode, will later become default, blocking more unique device identifiers. #Firefox145 #DigitalFingerprinting

Keypoints

  • Firefox 145 introduces advanced anti-fingerprinting protections to improve user privacy.
  • The new features initially operate in Private Browsing and Enhanced Tracking Protection Strict mode.
  • Additional measures block requests to access hardware details, fonts, and screen resolution.
  • Only 20% of users can now be uniquely fingerprinted due to these enhancements.
  • Users can disable protections on specific sites if they encounter usability issues.

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