Mozilla Firefox update: New feature can stop sites like Facebook from tracking - Know more

Mozilla Firefox update: Mozilla's latest Firefox browser update has a new feature that prevents sites like Facebook from tracking users across websites. Numerous companies, including Facebook, Marketo, Olytics, and HubSpot, utilise custom URL query parameters to track clicks on links, the news agency IANS reported. 

For example, Facebook appends a fbclid query parameter to outbound links to track clicks. Now, according to Bleeping Computer, Mozilla Firefox 102 was released with a new privacy feature that strips parameters from URLs that are used to track users around the web, the report further added.

With the release of Firefox 102, Mozilla has added the new 'Query Parameter Stripping' feature that automatically strips various query parameters used for tracking from URLs when you open them, whether that be by clicking on a link or simply pasting the URL into the address bar.

The new feature is part of Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection. To enable Query Parameter Stripping, go into the Firefox Settings, click on Privacy and Security, and then change 'Enhanced Tracking Protection' to 'Strict'. 

However, these tracking parameters will not be stripped in Private Mode even with Strict mode enabled. Firefox has plenty of other privacy tools that can be put to use by users anytime, and giving them hard-core ad-tracking prevention is a good move.

- Those who are using the Firefox browser can activate this tracking tool. 

- Head over to the Privacy and Security Settings on your Firefox browser.

- Over there you will find the Enhanced Tracking Protection feature

.- You just have to select the Strict option, and these trackers will not able to monitor your web activity from now.