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Firefox continues Stripping down on Monitoring with cache partitioning

Breaking the browser cache up into separate pools prevents sophisticated timing probes that let one site know whether you're logged into another.

Expand / / Implementing the browser cache into different pools averts complex timing probes that allow you website understand if you are logged into a different. (charge: Mozilla / / Jim Salter)

Firefox variant 85 will likely be published from January 2021, and also among its attributes is raised user solitude via advancements in client-side storage (cache) partitioning. It was widely and wrongly reported elsewhere as system partitioning, probably because of confusion across the privacy.partition.network_country flag in Firefox, which enables advanced users to disable or enable cache partitioning as wanted.

What’s cache partitioning–and {} I need it?

In summary, cache partitioning is the practice of maintaining different cache pools to get different sites, depending on the website asking the resources rich, as opposed to only on the website providing the tools.

Having a conventional, worldwide scoped browser cache, then you may observe behavior like that:

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