Privacy on the Internet is becoming increasingly important to users, who want to prevent their personal data from being tracked and used by third parties without their consent. That’s why Mozilla has released a new feature for its Firefox browser on Android that promises to protect them from cross-website tracking.
This is Total Cookie Protection, a security feature that was already available in the desktop version of Firefox since late last year, and has now been incorporated into the mobile version of the browser.
Cookies are small files that web pages store on the user’s device when they visit them. Its main function is to remember your preferences, such as the language, the login or the content of the shopping cart.
However, some cookies are also used to monitor user activity on the Internet and collect information about your browsing habits, interests or location. These cookies are known as third-party cookies or spy cookies, and are used to offer personalized ads to the user or to perform statistical analysis.
The problem is that these cookies can follow the user across different websites that share the same advertising or analytics provider. Thus, they can create a detailed user profile without your knowledge or authorization.
What does Total Cookie Protection do?
Total Cookie Protection is a feature that prevents spy cookies from tracking the user between websites. it does creating a separate “cookie bin” for each website the user visits, where all the cookies generated by that site are saved. In this way, cookies can only access data from the website that created them, and not data from other sites.
Thus, Total Cookie Protection prevents personalized ads from following the user while browsing the Internet, and offers you greater privacy and control over your personal data.
How to activate Total Cookie Protection?
For Total Cookie Protection to work correctly it is necessary create a free firefox account and be logged in. This is essential, since cookies also have a practical function that allows the browser to remember the configuration and settings of the sites that we usually visit frequently. In this way, Firefox is able to read all those cookies stored in the “cookie box” while preventing them from being tracked by third parties.
However, if you don’t want to create a Firefox account You can also limit and block cookies by activating Firefox’s tracking protection in “Strict” mode:
- Open the Firefox browser on the Android device.
- Click on the three dots icon located at the bottom right of the screen.
- Select the “Settings” option.
- Go to the “Privacy and security” section.
- Click on the “Enhanced Tracking Protection” option.
- Select the “Strict” level.
With these simple steps, the user will be able to enjoy more secure and private browsing with Firefox for Android. This will also make the pages load faster, but some functionality of the page may fail. Keep that in mind!
