An upcoming release of Firefox will give users the option to block two increasingly common and ugly aspects of today's web: browser fingerprinting and cryptomining scripts. Neither type of script is ...

Cryptomining has been abused to subvert people’s computer resources for the benefit of disingenuous webmasters. Image from Shutterstock. At least one of the websites on this list was not intended ...

Mozilla has announced that upcoming versions of Firefox will block all cross-site tracking, slow tracking scripts, and malicious miner and fingerprinting scripts by default. These new features will be ...

Have you updated your web browser lately? If the answer is "no" and you are running Firefox (or Firefox Quantum, as Mozilla calls it these days), there is a new build available, version 67.0. This is ...

Firefox engineers are working on a method to address the recent rise in usage of in-browser miners (cryptojacking scripts) that are, in most cases, ruining the web surfing experience of most users.

Mozilla has announced that from 2019 onwards, it will block all tracking scripts by default on its popular Firefox browser, preventing unchecked data collection and cross-site tracking of users. A ...