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Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created (blog.mozilla.org)

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[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 58 points 2 months ago

Yes, it's the reason for the tracking. To sell more targeted ads.

If you're up for reading some shennanigans, check out the book Mindf*ck. It's about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, written by a whistleblower, and details election manipulation using data collected from Facebook and other public or purchased data.

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