If you’re concerned about privacy (and you should be), you surely know that Mozilla is one of the companies most concerned about our data not being an easy currency.
The Mozilla organization is fighting for companies to be more transparent with the data they collect. Now they have announced that they are expanding their Total Cookie Protection system and bring their privacy tools to Android phones.
What is the Firefox TCP system that reaches Android
Surely you have heard of the digital fingerprint or profile that we have on the network, but this is usually invisible to other users, not to companies. When we browse, websites collect a series of data to generate an individual profile and be able to sell it to other companies.
This is something that also happens with apps and hence Google tries to make apps specify what data they collect from the Play Store. Well, with these data packets, for example, some companies may try to sell services or products to us, but there is a lot of other data that is collected which ultimately is our information and browsing behavior. A simple example are those personalized ads that follow you wherever you go with products that interest you.
TCP isolates cookies from each website to prevent others from tracking them.
In the Firefox browser in its desktop version, Mozilla has implemented full cookie protection, a system similar to a “sandbox” in which, automatically, it stores cookies from this website. This cookie is isolated so that other sites on the network cannot access the data and therefore your profile is not traceable.
You might think that’s as useful as it is annoying, because if you enter data into a portal, access it again, or do it from another device, you’ll have to do it again. However, the interesting thing about Mozilla’s system is that that the “sandbox cookie” information is stored in your user profile
As we said, this was something exclusive to desktop versions, but with newer versions of Firefox it will be something that will automatically activate on Android. It will be totally transparent for the user, since he will not have to activate anything, and the update will be deployed globally in the coming days.
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More information | Mozilla Blog
