The best way to update Firefox is within the ‘About Firefox’ dialogue. Nguyen says in the video, Firefox’s new mode should do the roughly the same. This reporter started using Ghostery in earnest in the last few weeks, and while it does bust the odd page, overall, it makes the web much faster.
Ghostery was not immediately available for comment on this story. Privacy nuts might be thinking, “Hey, isn’t the new Private Mode basically doing what the Ghostery add-on/extension does already?” It looks that way. In 2012, it introduced Collusion to help users visualize just how many spying eyes were in the background of their browsing (a tool now known by the milquetoast name ‘Lightbeam’) and how they follow you around. In fact, most people probably think private modes provide more safety than they do.įirefox has been working to educate web users about the prevalence of trackers for a long time. Nick Nguyen, Vice President for Product at Mozilla, says in the video announcement, “We think that when you launch private browsing you’re telling us that you want more control over the data you share on the web.” That sounds right. ‘We think that when you launch private browsing you’re telling us that you want more control over the data you share on the web.’įirefox’s new “Private Mode” one-ups user protection here by automatically blocking web trackers.
