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Facebook gets round tracking privacy measure by encrypting links

July 20, 2022 admin ads, Brave, Facebook, Firefox, links, privacy, query parameter stripping, tracking

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:35:37 +0000

Facebook is reportedly switching out click identifiers for encryption, making it harder (if not impossible) to strip tracking from the URL.

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Update now! Mozilla fixes security vulnerabilities and introduces a new privacy feature for Firefox

June 30, 2022 admin cve-2022-34468, cve-2022-34470, cve-2022-34478, cve-2022-34479, cve-2022-34482, cve-2022-34483, cve-2022-34484, enhanced tracking protection, Exploits and vulnerabilities, Firefox, ms-msdt, query parameter stripping

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:01:41 +0000

Mozilla has released Firefox updates to the Release Channel that fix several security vulnerabilities and introduce a new privacy feature called Query Parameter Stripping.

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