In a move seen as a swipe at Chrome, Firefox is continuing its fight against Facebook and Google’s online ad tracking empire. The browser, owned by Mozilla, will now block third-party tracking cookies by default. This Enhanced Tracking Protection will be automatically turned on for all global users as part of the standard setting. The …
The Firefox broswer maker has suspended all advertising activities on Facebook following the the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which has embroiled the popular social networking site. In a blog post announcing the move, Denelle Dixon, Mozilla’s chief business and legal officer, said: We understand that Facebook took steps to limit developer access to friends’ data beginning …
Firefox developer Mozilla has reclaimed an infringing domain name that was filed in bad faith reports IPPro The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center last month that the registrant, which had concealed its identity by means of a privacy protection service, had registered mozilla-europe.com in bad faith and that it was identical …
Flash’s ultimate demise has been slow and painful, and now Google is planning to deal it another blow through another update that should be active by the last quarter of 2016. Last year, Google made a slight change that would enable Flash blocking on a very limited scale through “intelligently” pausing unnecessary content as a …