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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This has been going around all over lemmy and I still had no idea what the actual news (if any) is supposed to be. So I did a diff against the 2022 version of this Mozilla blog entry. The differences:

  • Changed "Starting today, Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection to all Firefox users worldwide" to "Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection to more Firefox users worldwide."

  • Added mention of Android.

  • Changed "recent stories" to just "stories", since the reporting on this is no longer recent.

  • The somewhat whimsical image from the 2022 version has been replaced with one that to me looks more generic and illustrates the technology less clearly, with more irrelevant detail in the alt text and no credit for the artist.

  • Changed "Today's release" to "The release".

  • 2022's "Bringing Total Cookie Protection to all Firefox users is our next step towards creating a better internet, one where your privacy is not optional" changed to "While bringing Total Cookie Protection to more Firefox users has been one significant step in this journey, we have still kept our sights on an even safer, even better internet. And starting in 2024, all our users can look forward to Firefox blocking even more third party cookies. That’s right; we are taking big swings to adopt new cookie partitioning and clearing mechanisms so that users can browse with fewer cookies that won’t stick around as long and will result in an even better browsing experience. Just another step on our road towards creating a better internet where your privacy is not optional.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really the only difference is that it's on by default now. It was an optional feature before.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a source for that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My Firefox says it now has Total Cookie Protection, and at least the notification about it wasn't there before. Some other comment I read said that it was part of the Strict privacy setting before (i.e. not the default), but if you want more of a source then that, I lost the comment.

Edit: I was reading about this on a different copy of this post: https://lemmy.world/post/19163486

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh, that makes sense. Setting it to "strict" mode may be the thing I vaguely remember doing to make sure it was active in 2022.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Damn, these are some pretty great news. I block third party cookies by default on uBlock Origin anyway, but sometimes you have no choice but to enable them for the website to function. I'm glad Mozilla is implementing this.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Article from JUNE 14, 2022

[–] Warl0k3 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Nope they're right about this one, see below

~~Read to literally the next line of text and you find:~~

~~Updated Aug. 28, 2024.~~

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Look up the article on Wayback machine and you only find minimal updates over the years.

The difference between this and the most recent snapshot from before Aug. 28, 2024 is just that they removed the link to a particular news story. Even checking the oldest snapshot, you can see there has been no significant change to the main content since it was originally posted years back.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

This interaction reads like a tennis match

[–] Warl0k3 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah alright, fair enough! Crummy that they don't make that clearer.

[–] FuryMaker 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do I confirm it's enabled?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago