Mozilla Firefox 120 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New

pinchcramp, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Firefox now supports a setting (in Preferences → Privacy & Security) to enable Global Privacy Control. With this opt-in feature, Firefox informs the websites that the user doesn’t want their data to be shared or sold.

This sounds like Do Not Track revisited. The only difference that I can find (only skimmed the website) is, that there seems to be some legal support for this in the state of California.

Now you can exercise your legal privacy rights in one step via Global Privacy Control (GPC), required under the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA).

I wonder:

1. How does this differ from DNT?
2. Does this this have any real chance to take off? From what I’ve heard, DNT has been rather counterproductive as it can be used to fingerprint users.

Herbstzeitlose, 10 months ago

Just post the actual patch notes instead of this blogspam.

Vincent, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

We can do that when it's actually released; blogspam tries to publish on the expected release date before the actual release so it can scoop up the clicks. Release notes should be posted here later: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/120.0/releasenotes/

Strit, 10 months ago

I agree. I’d love a quick TL:DR or rundown.

makingStuffForFun, 10 months ago

Well, German users get a full new privacy feature re cookies, yet only for them. Why the hell are Mozilla geo fencing privacy improvements?

Dirk, 10 months ago

Privacy features lower ad revenue. This is not what they want.

dr_jekell, 10 months ago

Most likely rolling it out to a “small” segment of the user base to find any edge case issues before rolling it out to everyone.

magikmw, 10 months ago

There’s no release notes yet and it’s not available for download on the main release channel. Title is clickbait.