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If you a user that has the most care for your privacy, you are probably using Firefox already.

You'll also be please to hear that Mozilla has been improving its Private mode.

 

 

Recently released the new Private mode features Tracking Protection, where it detects parts of the page that can be used to track you, and disables it. Now, Mozilla announces further anti-tracking measures.

 

Firefox Private mode (with Tracking Protection enabled (on by default)), will block any script that could be used to identify a user, including ads, analytic trackers, and removed social network buttons, like the Facebook Like buttons.

 

Previously, and like Chrome Incognito mode, it only managed locally stored content, and deleted cookies at the end of the session. It allowed any tracking scripts, ads, and so on to run. Now, Firefox goes full in providing that privacy.

 

Mozilla's VP Nick Nguyen says, that because Firefox now blocks everything in Private Mode, you'll notice that you'll surf the web faster under the mode compared to have nothing being blocked.

 

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/3/9663396/firefox-private-browsing-ad-blocker-tracking

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Hehe FOSS hehe.

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*agressively downgrades to windows 7 and switches to firefox*

You should go back to Windows 2000 for 0 tracking (which isn't too bad, as it is was XP without the theme, search dog animation thing, activation system, and without fast boot)

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Giggity

 

 

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You should go back to Windows 2000 for 0 tracking (which isn't too bad, as it is was XP without the theme, search dog animation thing, activation system, and without fast boot)

Downgrading back to MS-DOS

kidding btw, win10 is pretty good.

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This has been around in chrome for years.. Incognito mode..

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This has been around in chrome for years.. Incognito mode..

 

Firefox Private mode (with Tracking Protection enabled (on by default)), will block any script that could be used to identify a user, including ads, analytic trackers, and removed social network buttons, like the Facebook Like buttons.

 

Previously, and like Chrome Incognito mode, it only managed locally stored content, and deleted cookies at the end of the session. It allowed any tracking scripts, ads, and so on to run. Now, Firefox goes full in providing that privacy.

 

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This has been around in chrome for years.. Incognito mode..

Please read the article. Chrome does not have this.

Chrome has FULL tracking on you, even under incognito mode (links with your Google account. Google knows everything), and only the only thing it does is delete cookies, delete any local storage at the end of the session, and doesn't put the site in your history.

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This has been around in chrome for years.. Incognito mode..

Not sure if trolling or serious. You do know what Incognito mode does right? It barely blocks anything.

 

 

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good, good.

 

we are going the opposite way compared to chrome

 

 

 

*agressively downgrades to windows 7 and switches to firefox*
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ehmm, didnt they spy just as much on w7 and w8 as in w10? except they admit it on w10

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The only thing they'd really need to do now is force https on while in Private Mode.

 

Everything encrypted

No trackers

No browser history

No cookies

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Foxes have never been stealthier  :ph34r:

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shame FF is a broken PoS  went back recently and its horrible

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shame FF is a broken PoS went back recently and its horrible

Horrible? My experience with it is nothing but good times. It is my default browser and the first thing I install on my computer. I have issues with chrome with much larger system hit and slower internet browsing.

What is your bad experience with firefox?

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*agressively downgrades to windows 7 and switches to firefox*

should go to linux then

 

 

 

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should go to linux then

Its a joke

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Its a joke

I just made the switch and now use Linux almost exclusively.

I only ever run Windows for gaming and music production, everything else I do in Linux.

It's great.

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I just made the switch and now use Linux almost exclusively.

I only ever run Windows for gaming and music production, everything else I do in Linux.

It's great.

im saying my original post was a joke. Not Linux, Linux is great.

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This has been around in chrome for years.. Incognito mode..

And it's been around in Firefox for just as long.  But here we have additional features that Chrome does not have.

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Already does that.

I know.

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Horrible? My experience with it is nothing but good times. It is my default browser and the first thing I install on my computer. I have issues with chrome with much larger system hit and slower internet browsing.

What is your bad experience with firefox?

 

 

spell check aint great, last pass sucks on it, ad block aint much better, crashes, shitty interface.....and lots of small things that forced me back to chrome, which isnt great either.

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