No matter how much benefit we enjoy in the online world but sometimes everybody gets offended by security issues and leaks of different apps and browsers. Seeing that concern, the famous web browser, Mozilla Firefox is going to boost its security for its users through Tor like features.
The new plan of Mozilla which is the maker of Firefox is to add a security update that will certainly remove the user tracking feature from their browser.
In the past, Firefox browser had the user-tracking feature, called as canvas fingerprinting, which followed the users by means of unique identifiers, as they stepped from website to website.
The upcoming update which is going to be the part of browsers in near future might still have the tracking option as done by cookies, which is fairly different as compared to the canvas fingerprinting.
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After the removal of this feature, the websites and other advertisers will have to way out to other methods for following their user base like that by using cookies as the canvas fingerprinting, beforehand used to track the users across a number of sites, however, it will be no longer accessible.
According to the reports of TheNextWeb, “Mozilla plans to remove this feature in the next Firefox update which is planned to roll out early next year”.
To your info, Mozilla is a non-profit organization that doesn’t make any financial gains through Firefox. And most likely that is the reason behind this step and they have decided to go against canvas fingerprinting.
The issue of users’ privacy while staying online and the freedom on the internet have often been discussed. It is a huge debate. And this step might give up Mozilla a lot of criticism from other tech giants which are actively monetizing through targeted advertising.
