{"id":129,"date":"2021-01-27T22:23:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T22:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/?p=129"},"modified":"2021-01-27T22:23:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T22:23:23","slug":"firefox-ditches-flash-and-adds-supercookie-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/2021\/01\/27\/firefox-ditches-flash-and-adds-supercookie-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox ditches Flash and adds supercookie protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"938\" height=\"709\" src=\"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/firefox.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-130\" srcset=\"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/firefox.png 938w, http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/firefox-300x227.png 300w, http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/firefox-768x581.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>With the release of Firefox 85, Mozilla&#8217;s browser is isolating caches and network connections for each visited website. This makes supercookies useless for tracking users while browsing between sites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the release notes. Firefox now protects you from supercookies, a type of tracker that can stay hidden in your browser and track you online, even after you clear cookies &#8220;By isolating supercookies, Firefox prevents them from tracking your web browsing from one site to the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other highlight of this Firefox release is the removal of Adobe Flash support. The new Firefox version ships without Flash support, thus improving the browser&#8217;s performance and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop users can upgrade to Firefox 85 by going to Options -> Help -> About Firefox. The browser will automatically check for the new update and install it when available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the release notes. Firefox now protects you from supercookies, a type of tracker that can stay hidden in your browser and track you online, even after you clear cookies &#8220;By isolating supercookies, Firefox prevents them from tracking your web browsing from one site to the next. The other highlight of this Firefox release &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/2021\/01\/27\/firefox-ditches-flash-and-adds-supercookie-protection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefox ditches Flash and adds supercookie protection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,15,14,13,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/netsmith.users.sonic.net\/netsmithnetworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}