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Mozilla drags its feet on blocking cookies from unvisited websites

2013-05-17 21:16:56| Extremetech

Mozilla has been courting controversy with its move toward blocking some third-party cookies by default in Firefox. While preventing unvisited websites from setting cookies is undoubtedly good for consumers, advertisers are none too happy about it. Sadly, Mozilla is now delaying this feature thanks to the complaints it has received from "concerned site owners."

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Mozilla postpones by-default cookie blocking in Firefox

2013-05-17 21:07:58| InfoWorld: Top News

Mozilla is postponing its controversial plan for Firefox to block certain third-party cookies by default - but the company's CTO Brandon Eich urged users not to interpret the delay as a sign that Mozilla is going soft on protecting user

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Mozilla postpones default blocking of third-party cookies in Firefox

2013-05-17 13:53:35| InfoWorld: Top News

Mozilla has postponed blocking third-party cookies by default in Firefox 22, in order "to collect and analyze data on the effect of blocking some third-party cookies." The nonprofit organization is, however, not softening its stand on protecting privacy and putting users first, Brendan Eich, Mozilla's CTO and senior vice president of engineering, wrote in a blog post Thursday.

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Internet Explorer 10 beats Chrome and Firefox at blocking malware downloads

2013-05-14 21:43:44| InfoWorld: Top News

Internet Explorer 10 users are far less likely to suffer malware infections while Web browsing compared to users of Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera, according to a recent independent study by NSS Labs.

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