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Starting with Firefox 127, we're enabling a new anti-tracking feature in Nightly: Bounce Tracking Protection. (mozilla.social)
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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 year ago

This post seems to have some more detail on what that feature actually is.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

This feature will be implemented via loopback starting with version 127.0.0.1

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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sounds like it will be really hard to differentiate bounce trackers from totally valid patterns like routing through federated identity servers πŸ€” I wonder how they're dealing with that

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Source: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/05/09/screenshots-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-160/

We’re working on a new anti-tracking feature: Bounce Tracking Protection. It works similar to the existing Cookie Purging feature in Firefox, but instead of a tracker list it relies on heuristics to detect bounce trackers.

It’s based on the navigational-tracking-protections spec draft in the PrivacyCG[1]

[1] https://privacycg.github.io/nav-tracking-mitigations/#bounce-tracking-mitigations