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Steve Gibson mentioned this on Security Now this week. It will be available as a toggle in the normal privacy settings window in Firefox 39, but it can be enabled right now by going into the about:config settings page.

It uses a curated blacklist managed by Mozilla foundation, to block sites that specifically aggregate tacking data on you. As a nice by-product it also speeds most web sites up 20% since your browser doesn't have to waste time pinging all those 3rd party tracking sites.

After you enable it it, go to http://www.nytimes.com/ and you should see a shield icon in the URL bar that indicates that Firefox is blocking tracking sites on that page, and you can click on the shield for more info or to disable blocking on a per-site basis if necessary.

This does NOT block ads, so for that you still need Adblock or something else. All it does is block tracking aggregators. Basically this is Mozilla's response to the utter failure of the industry to respect the "DO NOT TRACK" header.

Works in latest WaterFox also.

I see no down-side to doing this.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tr ... =inproduct

I tried it, but I don't see the shield in the location bar.

doesn't do anything for me in WF 35 but I have other add ons that might be doing it already. I have one that is called disconnect .

I think you need to be on the latest version of FF or WF.

This is what it looks like in my WaterFox when I click on the shield:

You might not have the latest version. I see it in WaterFox.
Thanks Bob!

ok, got it now,, thanks.

Awesome. Thanks FP.

I see it now. I missed a few steps the first time:


How to turn on Tracking Protection

1. In the Location bar, type about:config and press Enter.
   • The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear. Click I'll be careful, I promise! to continue to the about:config page.
2. Search for privacy.trackingprotection.enabled.
3. Double-click privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to toggle its value to true.

This will turn on Tracking Protection. If you later want to turn it back off, repeat the above steps to toggle the preference back to false.

Hum...I don't see it.

privacy.trackingprotection.enabled;true
services.sync.prefs.sync.privacy.trackingprotection.enabled;true

Those were the 2 items that came up with the search. I even shut down FF and re-started and still no icon. I'm using the standard FF 36.0.4.

Executioner wrote:Hum...I don't see it.

privacy.trackingprotection.enabled;true
services.sync.prefs.sync.privacy.trackingprotection.enabled;true

Those were the 2 items that came up with the search. I even shut down FF and re-started and still no icon. I'm using the standard FF 36.0.4.

Are you running a script blocker? I had to temporarily allow the nytimes site in order to see the shield.

Err wrote:Are you running a script blocker? I had to temporarily allow the nytimes site in order to see the shield.

Nope.

OK - got it to work after disabling this add-on:

https://bitbucket.org/adstomper/adblockedge

The above was for my laptop. On my desktop, I had to disable this one:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock