For six years, I've led a research team focused on revealing how we’re tracked by hidden third parties online. I've been waiting for tracking protection to become a competitive feature of web browsers. That's happening now. Here are some thoughts. [Thread]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/technology/personaltech/firefox-chrome-browser-privacy.html …
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If you switched to Firefox for privacy, you’re not protected by default. Go to Options, search for “privacy”, and turn the “Tracking Protection” setting to “Always”.pic.twitter.com/lJAM4CuGwO
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Safari and Brave enable tracking protection by default. I hope Firefox gets there as well. After all, it is advertised as a privacy-friendly browser. By choosing Firefox, users are already expressing their preference for privacy protection. Shouldn’t require a further setting.
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I have great respect for
@laparisa and the rest of the Chrome security team, and I’m awed by their work on security. But this is a non-answer. Can Chrome provide meaningful tracking protection despite the obvious conflict? That remains to be seen.pic.twitter.com/zq3bP0iNQW
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Replying to @random_walker
Challenge accepted! And huge kudos to your work in this space as well.
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Will you be following/replicating Safari's advances in tracking protection?
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