Mozilla is introducing a new feature to Firefox aimed at protecting users from bounce trackers, the browser developer has announced. Bounce tracking is a technique where a user clicks a link but ends up reaching their intended destination via an intermediary tracking page. This allows trackers to place and read 'first-party cookies,' which aren’t blocked by the browser, unlike third-party
  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
    3·
    2 months ago

    I have all kinds of software that are supposed to stop this. They don’t work.

    I even manually add the tracking domains and they still don’t work.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      Its called using third party front ends. The extensions just redirect and replace

        • Possibly linuxEnglish
          32·
          2 months ago

          Extensions or front ends?

          For extensions I use libredirect and for YouTube I use invidious. Libreredirect redirects YouTube links and replaces embedded YouTube videos.