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Mozilla pulls tracking trigger for Firefox 22, ignores ad industry attacks

2013-04-08 13:26:22| InfoWorld: Top News

Mozilla has added automatic third-party cookie-blocking to a preview version of Firefox 22, a move that will put the feature in most users hands by late June and the company on a collision course with the online ad industry. Advertising trade groups have blasted the new cookie blocking, calling it "dangerous and highly disturbing," and promising that Firefox users would see more online ads as a result.

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