Finally, we can use a true stealth browsing feature. Mozilla wants to ensure browsing privacy with its enhancements in Firefox. The new feature is still in the testing stage. The stealth browsing enhancement is designed to block any website elements that could be accessed by third parties to track your behavior across the net. It is true that most major browsers already have a "Do Not Track" option, but the problem is many advertising companies do not honor it.
Now, Mozilla's experimental tool comes to help users blocking outside parties like analytics companies or ad networks from tracking them through the browser fingerprinting and cookies. According to a communicate from Mozilla on Friday, the new feature designed by Mozilla software engineers will be available in the Firefox Developer Edition on Windows, Linux, and Mac, as well as on Firefox Aurora on Android.
For the moment, the new feature of Mozilla Firefox is still in pre-beta phase. However, according to the company, there are good chances to be incorporated into future versions of the main Firefox browser.
If you want to test the new tool, you need to be aware of the fact that on some data-hungry websites, it might cause them to not load properly, according to Mozilla. However, you are allowed to unblock specific websites and this should be enough for a workaround solution.
Another useful feature of the new Firefox enhancements allows users to better identify unsafe browser add-ons. We all know how many issues can arrive from add-ons that could collect our private information or even worse, may install malware on our computers.
According to a blog post by Mozilla, the company collaborated with developers to create a process that verifies add-ons installed in Firefox and requires them to meet the guidelines and criteria developed by Mozilla in order to ensure they're safer for users.
While web tracking might provide data for the lucrative business of targeted ads, users are more often not getting any real advantages from this. According to a recent report, publishers pay billions of dollars due to the fact that the usage of an ad-blocking software is on the rise.
Some other browser extensions designed to block targeted ads and internet tracking include AdBlock Plus and Ghostery. However, meanwhile the Electronic Frontier Foundation aims to develop a new standard for the "Do Not Track" browser setting in order to make it more effective on any browser used.
