Firefox Receives Unique Privacy Feature: 'Total Cookie Protection'

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The new Firefox feature 'Total Cookie Protection', also known as 'State Partitioning', is supposed to prevent cross-site cookie tracking. It takes elements from browser add-ons like Privacy Badger and Multi-Account Containers to deliver a universal solution against one of the most common methods for web tracking.

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[danbarnes]

Now hackers cant steal my Cookies in my kitchen!

[DavidA-]

The little things can really count toward your safety and security.
So many have been fooled by the facebook fans to think it doesn't matter.

[UrbexAlliance-SG]

When Firefox has Total Cookie Protection is it still necessary to keep First Party Isolate enabled in about:config?

[gramursowanfaborden]

2:30 um... the UK left the EU, not the Earth.

[Jordan-erbx]

Hey man, just letting you know I really really love your content, please keep it up❤️

[commerce-usa]

Excellent. This seems a lot like the way servers can block requests from clients who are not currently accessing their sites to avoid unwanted cross scripting, but for cookies on the client browser. Pretty cool.

[dylan.t]

Thanks for the information very well explained

[noyb]

blocking cookies won't protect your privacy. there is no way to stop browser fingerprinting, and that's the technique used by all the big companies. vpns, tor, and browser isolation methods are your best defense.

[eric.m]

thanks you make great content i'm your new sub :D

[More_Row]

Doubt it works as good as they claim however. I feel there's almost become a sort of marketing by privacy features. Hey we are more private if you get my meaning, and Mozilla as a umbrella corporation doesn't have a clean record.

[infotruther]

I would use the word containers instead of buckets

[nils]

Safari had this for at least 1/2 years. If you delete a website from your history, it automatically deleted all cookie associated with that specific website.

[devtekve]

If I signed in using Google on site A and also on site B, what prevents their tracking to know that my email logged in in those two locations?

The cross site cookie is just convinient for the companies, but the lack of it won't really avoid tracking, it'll just make it a pinch harder...

[subfloor]

If you don't use SSO, the 3rd party cookie blocking is never really an issue. Always sign up with an email address.

[MarcoFlores-umcj]

The problem is favicons now, cookies are generally neutral

[gianz]

Considering the pervasive use of fingerprinting, does this feature count that much?

[mmathews]

I'd appreciate your opinion as I'm stuck on making a tough decision. I'm looking for an optimal web browser set up for maximum online privacy. I'm debating which of these 3 options is best. The first option is using 4 different web browsers, 1 for each (email, banking, shopping and general web browsing). Option 2 is using Firefox exclusively and having 4 different user profiles set up. Option 3 is to use just 1 Firefox user profile and create "containers". I love firefox and really prefer option 3 best then option 2 because it would be great using 1 browser. However, I'm thinking it will not offer the most security against fingerprinting and tracking. I'm new to all this and would greatly appreciate your suggestions!

[adropofgoldensun]

Must be why many web sites are now insisting you agree to their installing cookies in order to access their sites.

[mfsc-]

is it enabled by default ? or should i access somewhere in about:config to enable it ?

[realmartcraft]

I'm actually thinking now of switching from Brave to Firefox... but I'm probably sticking to Brave as a lot of websites I work with *need* a chromium browser to work because... uhh... bad programming I guess