Quick update that this has been live in Nightly since the end of last week so I hope none of y'all have been inadvertently logged out so far.
Also a correction that the correct link to the Privacy CG discussion is https://github.com/privacycg/proposals/issues/6. Thank you Emilio for pointing this out. Cheers, Johann On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:26 PM Johann Hofmann <jhofm...@mozilla.com> wrote: > In bug 1628743 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628743> I > plan to enable ETP cookie purging by default on Nightly only, affecting > both desktop and mobile. > > In short, ETP cookie purging is an attempt to protect against first-party > redirect (“bounce”) trackers by periodically clearing their site data. To > that effect, any site that is on our list of known trackers and did not > receive user interaction (including scrolling) in the last 30 days will > have all its cookies and other storage cleared during idle daily. > > A similar technique is already being shipped in Safari as part of ITP > <https://webkit.org/blog/8311/intelligent-tracking-prevention-2-0/>. > Standardization of such a mechanism is currently being discussed in the > Privacy CG > <https://webkit.org/blog/8311/intelligent-tracking-prevention-2-0/>. Our > implementation is likely to be altered based on the outcome of that > discussion. > > Our plan is to let this bake for at least the 77 cycle and evaluate for > bugs and potential breakage before we make a decision to ship in 78, or > later. > > The preference to control this is privacy.purge_trackers.enabled. > > Should you notice strange website behavior on Nightly that revolves around > state management (e.g. getting logged out of a site too frequently), please > file a bug blocking bug 1594226 > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594226>. We’re happy to > investigate further. > > Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. > > Thanks, > > Johann > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
