As a side effect, this new feature will also function as a basic ad blocker, since these type of blockers often look for 3rd<\/sup> party content. Many ad networks often include tracking functionality to allow advertisers to \u201cpersonalize\u201d ads to you and your browsing habits.<\/p>\n For now, Tracking Protection is only available through Firefox\u2019s \u201cTest Pilot<\/a>,\u201d which launched in May. Test Pilot is an optional add-on to Firefox that lets users \u201ctry out experimental features and let [Mozilla] know what you think.\u201d<\/p>\n To start using Tracking Protection, visit the page for Tracking Protection in Firefox<\/a>. If you don\u2019t yet have Test Pilot installed, you will see a prompt to \u201cinstall the Test Pilot Add-on.\u201d Once you\u2019ve done that, you will automatically be redirected to enable the Tracking Protection feature.<\/p>\n Because Tracking Protection relies on automatically detecting scripts that may be tracking you, it requires extensive testing to make sure it\u2019s not falsely identifying any code or affecting a website\u2019s functionality. When testing Tracking Protection, you can click the shield icon and let Mozilla know that \u201cthis page works well.\u201d Mozilla has been tracking breakages in their Bugzilla database<\/a>.<\/p>\n Right now just about 10,000 people are testing out Tracking Protection, helping Mozilla improve the feature before they decide if it should become part of Firefox for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Protecting users from internet-wide tracking. Security and privacy go hand in hand. We think people should not only have secure connections on the web, but also be able to limit…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[151,192,230],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-lowdown","tag-firefox","tag-mozilla","tag-tracking-protection","post-with-tags"],"views":6371,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Depositphotos_112126604_m-2015.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tracking](\"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/FireFox.png\")
<\/p>\n