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By this, it means it's expanding its protections against websites linking you to a "secret digital ID" by "collecting subtle details of your setup—ranging from your time zone to your operating system settings—that together create a 'fingerprint' identifiable across websites and across browser sessions."

From eyeballing the chart Mozilla presents, without any protections, over 60% of users appear unique to sites that fingerprint, and the company's previous 'phase 1 protections' lowered this to under 40%. Now, with phase 2 rolling out, Mozilla is claiming just 20% of unique-appearing users.

The company claims that, thanks to a "global analysis … Firefox is the first browser with this level of insight into fingerprinting and the most effective deployed defenses to reduce it."

The methods Mozilla is employing seem to essentially boil down to giving websites the most generic information about your device and system as possible, while balancing this with the genuine benefits of having sites know some of these details. To be more specific, Mozilla says Firefox will do the following:

These changes are only available in Private Browsing Mode and ETP Strict mode, but that's just "while we work to enable them by default."

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Mozilla also tried to add some Terms of Use to Firefox earlier in the year that included a section that seemed to give the company a wide-spanning remit over user data, and it removed its FAQ section that promised not to sell user data.

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Source: PC Gamer