Firefox Deploys a Slew of New Privacy Features, Taking Aim at Facebook and Invasive Online Trackers – Gizmodo

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Firefox Deploys a Slew of New Privacy Features, Taking Aim at Facebook and Invasive Online Trackers  Gizmodo

There are plenty of browsers to choose from, but two of the most popular, when it comes to privacy at least, are headed down radically divergent paths. Whereas Google appears keen on crippling Chrome users’ efforts to block tracker-driven ads, Mozilla on Tuesday moved to block such trackers by default, with the aim of preventing companies like Google from developing profiles of users that feed behaviorally-targeted ads. “We believe that in order to truly protect people, we need to establish a new standard that puts people’s privacy first,” said David Camp, senior vice president of Firefox. …

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