At a time when every loud data leak sheds new light on how user activity is monitored, Firefox launches a new tool that prevents fingerprinting and illegal mining of cryptocurrencies .
Mozilla is once again working with Disconnect, a company that develops software to protect against tracking. Firefox is already using a contextual ad blocker developed by this company.
Both blocking methods are already available in test versions of Firefox Nightly 68 and Beta 67. In the future, Mozilla plans to install this tool by default in new releases.
Recall that illegal mining cryptocurrency (or cryptodikejacking ) is the use by the attackers of the power of a computer processor of an unsuspecting user to extract cryptocurrency. Malicious scripts are most often implemented on a computer with the help of special websites. The latest version of Firefox blocks such scripts from the Disconnect list.
The same applies to the "fingerprint" – information collected about the remote device (screen resolution, operating system, location, language settings) for further identification. The prints can be used in whole or in part, even when the cookie is turned off. Now in the test versions you can enable anti-cracking in the Preferences section of the main menu of Firefox.
Publication date 10/04/2019
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