Firefox introduces the default crawler blocker

Currently, practically any web page has some type of tracker inside, which seeks to have data such as cookies or which pages you have visited. Fortunately, browsers introduce measures in this regard, as is the case with Firefox. Since the Mozilla browser introduces its crawler blocker already activated by default. So they prevent third parties from obtaining this data.

Firefox introduces the default crawler blocker

What the browser will do from now on will be to block all trackers and other methods to record our activity. A way to be able to browse more peacefully online.

Goodbye to trackers

Mozilla itself calls this function ETP or Enhance Tracking Protection. It is a series of protections that in this case are implemented directly in Firefox. By default it is based on a list of trackers that are known to use cookies to record activity. In this case, developers of a well-known app have created this list. But the browser also allows us additional options.

Since this blocker has a strict mode, in which all the trackers are blocked. Although this is something that can affect the operation of many websites. You will probably notice when you use it that there are malfunctions in some of them. Users are also given a choice between which trackers to use and which not to use.

This blocker comes by default in Firefox. So if you download the browser now, it will already have this protection and it will be activated at all times. From the configuration in the browser, you will be able to configure this blocker of trackers to the taste of each user.

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