Both Beta and Nightly are available for Android devices, but there’s an easier option for maximum privacy and security on all phones and tablets: A special mobile browser called Firefox Focus. Mozilla does not make pre-release versions of Firefox widely available on iOS (although the curious can sign up for a limited test program). The browser situation is quite different, but ultimately simpler, on mobile devices. While sites do need a way to earn money, publishers and advertisers also need to find advertising models that don’t compromise the privacy of visitors. The default setting in Beta, called “Standard” may block some ads if they rely on cookies that facilitate tracking. And on October 23, this checkbox option made it to the Release version. In the case of DNS over HTTPS, it got into the Beta version in September as a simple checkbox option in the more user-friendly Preferences section of Firefox. There’s high likelihood, but no guarantee, that a feature will make it beyond Nightly. This is not for the technologically faint of heart, although a Mozilla blog post did provide clear step-by-step instructions. Called DNS over HTTPS, the capability makes it a bit harder for a greedy ISP, malicious hacker, or snoopy government to see what sties you visit.Īt the time, setting it up required going into the guts of the Nightly program, in a somewhat-hidden portion called the Configuration Editor, finding an obscurely named component, and changing a numerical value. In June, Nightly added the ability to encrypt the process of looking up a website address (converting, for instance, the “” you type in to the numerical IP address 172.217.7.196 that internet routers use).
0 kommentar(er)
