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New FireFox Update Offers Better Cryptomining Protection

Posted on May 22, 2019 by Agitator!!

The new release of FireFox is faster, with better protections built in.

In August 2018, we shared our adapted approach to anti-tracking to address growing consumer demand for features and services that respect online privacy. One of the three key areas we said we’d tackle was mitigating harmful practices like fingerprintingwhich builds a digital fingerprint that tracks you across the web, and cryptomining which uses the power of your computer’s CPU to generate cryptocurrency for someone else’s benefit. Based on recent testing of this feature in our pre-release channels last month, today’s Firefox release gives you the option to “flip a switch” in the browser and protect yourself from these nefarious practices.

For more, check out the Mozilla blog.

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