The Mozilla Foundation plans to offer cryptomining protection and fingerprinting in Firefox version 67 to improve the privacy of every user of the popular browser.
Cryptomining and fingerprinting protection by blocking them JavaScript cryptominers και ορισμένες προσπάθειες ιστοσελίδων που συλλέγουν fingerprints by users.
The Mozilla Foundation has revealed from 2018 that it had plans to improve privacy in Firefox. Since then, he has added some content exclusion options to Firefox 63, and has said he will add more protective features to future versions of Firefox.
So if the plan proceeds as planned, Firefox 67 will have options to block JavaScript cryptominers and some attempts to collect fingerprinting.
Cryptominers use the device's resources to perform mining, which causes increased CPU activity and much more power consumption. Depending on how the miner is set up, it can slow down the end user's entire system.
Protection from the fingerprinting it is not a new feature. The collection of fingerprints refers to user profiling techniques aimed at better tracking. The technique uses information provided by the Browser each device. The Mozilla Foundation has for the first time introduced a fingerprint blocking option from Firefox in version 41.
For those who are expecting the new cryptomining protection feature and improvements to fingerprint protection, the 67 release date is 14 May 2019.
The introduction of additional features to protect consumers seems to be delayed by Mozilla, who is accustomed to paying close attention to the privacy of its users. It remains to be seen whether the upcoming options will be enabled by default or come off.
Mozilla, Firefox 67 and reality
For the foundation Mozilla attention and sensitivity to user privacy appear to be one-way, as adding content exclusion options to Firefox will set it apart from its main browser opponent, Google Chrome.
On the other hand, if we want to make things a bit more realistic, the survival of the Mozilla Foundation depends on the company's agreements with the search engine companies. So it's doubtful whether Google or the other companies will choose a contract for Firefox to use a default search engine after blocking ads by default.
