Re: Intent to ship: media-capabilities

2018-05-14 Thread Steven Englehardt
> > On 14 May 2018, at 6:47 pm, Tom Ritter wrote: > > > > It seems like this will reveal a lot of information about the user's > > hardware. Does the Resist Fingerprinting preference disable the API or > > report standardized results? If not, can we get that bug on file (and > > if it's easy, poin

Re: Intent to implement and ship: New cookie jar policy to block storage access from tracking resources

2018-09-21 Thread Steven Englehardt
Technical documentation for this is now available on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Privacy/Storage_access_policy On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 10:24 PM Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is a (belated) intent to implement, as well as an intent to ship, a > new

Intent to implement: cryptomining and fingerprinting resource blocking

2019-03-21 Thread Steven Englehardt
Summary: We are expanding the set of resources blocked by Content Blocking to include domains found to participate in cryptomining and fingerprinting. Cryptomining has a significant impact on a device’s resources [0], and the scripts are almost exclusively deployed without notice to the user [1]. F

Re: Intent to prototype: Dynamic FPI

2020-04-20 Thread Steven Englehardt
(Re-sending this to fix the formatting) # Summary First-Party Isolation (FPI) is an Anti-Tracking feature that partitions most third-party state and communication channels by the top-level website. It uses the first-party eTLD+1 as part of the storage key and origin checks, such that third-party i

Intent to ship: Redirect Tracking Protection (formerly ETP Cookie Purging)

2020-08-04 Thread Steven Englehardt
As of July 28th we've started a slow rollout of redirect tracking protection feature (which we've previously called "ETP Cookie Purging") in Firefox 79 Desktop. We’ve started with 1% of users and will slowly increase over the coming weeks. The feature is behind the privacy.purge_trackers.enabled pr