Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies to prevent cross-site tracking

Partitioning network connections and caches for each website

Firefox 85 only brought one significant user-facing change — add-ons are now directly installable from addons.mozilla.org. But it turns out there is a lot more going on under the hood. The latest version of the Mozilla browser is cracking down on supercookies that evade regular anti-tracking techniques.

To achieve that, Firefox now partitions network connections and caches by each individual website visited. In the past, Firefox would share some resources across websites to reduce overhead, a practice virtually all browsers engage in.

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