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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months 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 🤔 I wonder how they're dealing with that

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months 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