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Firefox (v85) to ship 'network partitioning' as a new anti-tracking defense
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<blockquote data-quote="Tutman" data-source="post: 920773" data-attributes="member: 87079"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/firefox-v85-will-improve-its-cache-partitioning-for-stronger-privacy/[/URL]</p><h3><span style="font-size: 15px">Firefox continues cracking down on tracking with cache partitioning </span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: 15px">Mozilla follows Apple's and Google's leads on partitioning, then one-ups them.</span></h3><p></p><p>Firefox version 85 will be <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar" target="_blank">released</a> in January 2021, and one of its features is increased user privacy via improvements in client-side storage (cache) <a href="https://github.com/privacycg/storage-partitioning" target="_blank">partitioning</a>. This has been widely and incorrectly reported <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-ship-network-partitioning-as-a-new-anti-tracking-defense/" target="_blank">elsewhere</a> as network partitioning, likely due to confusion around the <a href="https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D75921" target="_blank">privacy.partition.network state</a> flag in Firefox, which allows advanced users to enable or disable cache partitioning as desired.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tutman, post: 920773, member: 87079"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/firefox-v85-will-improve-its-cache-partitioning-for-stronger-privacy/[/URL] [HEADING=2][SIZE=4]Firefox continues cracking down on tracking with cache partitioning [/SIZE][/HEADING] [HEADING=2][SIZE=4]Mozilla follows Apple's and Google's leads on partitioning, then one-ups them.[/SIZE][/HEADING] Firefox version 85 will be [URL='https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar']released[/URL] in January 2021, and one of its features is increased user privacy via improvements in client-side storage (cache) [URL='https://github.com/privacycg/storage-partitioning']partitioning[/URL]. This has been widely and incorrectly reported [URL='https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-ship-network-partitioning-as-a-new-anti-tracking-defense/']elsewhere[/URL] as network partitioning, likely due to confusion around the [URL='https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D75921']privacy.partition.network state[/URL] flag in Firefox, which allows advanced users to enable or disable cache partitioning as desired. [/QUOTE]
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