Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox automatically protects your privacy while you browse. It blocks trackers that follow you around online to collect information about your browsing habits and interests without breaking site functionality. It also includes protections against harmful scripts, such as malware that drains your battery.
Protections DashboardTo see what’s been blocked on all sites over the past week, visit your Protections Dashboard. Click the shield to the left of the address bar and select or type about:protections into the address bar. This will open the Protections Dashboard page in a new tab.
What Enhanced Tracking Protection blocksFirefox uses a list of known trackers provided by Disconnect. By default, Firefox blocks the following types of trackers and scripts:
To learn more about trackers and scripts blocked by Firefox, see Trackers and scripts Firefox blocks in Enhanced Tracking Protection, Third-party trackers and SmartBlock for Enhanced Tracking Protection.
Bounce Tracking ProtectionBounce Tracking Protection is a feature in Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) strict mode that prevents redirect trackers (bounce trackers) from collecting data as you navigate between websites. These trackers redirect you through intermediate URLs to gather information about your browsing habits.
How it works:
Bounce Tracking Protection effortlessly enhances your privacy, operating in the background when ETP is set to strict mode. For technical details, visit the Mozilla Source Docs.
How to tell when Firefox is protecting youThe shield to the left of the address bar tells you if Firefox is blocking trackers and scripts on a site.
This panel will display different information depending on the site you’re on.
If a site seems broken, disabling Enhanced Tracking Protection might fix the issue by allowing trackers on just that site. It allows trackers to load on that site only. Enhanced Tracking Protection will still prevent trackers on other sites. To disable it:
Follow the same process to turn Enhanced Tracking Protection back on. The site will be removed from the exception list, and the page will reload automatically.
You may encounter breakage on some sites when you’re in
StrictEnhanced Tracking Protection. This is because trackers are hidden in some content. For example, a website might embed an outside video or social media post that contains trackers. To block the trackers, Firefox must also block the content itself. Trackers are often hidden in the following types of content:
If a broken site starts working properly again after turning off the Enhanced Tracking Protection, you can click the shield icon and select Send report. This will show the Report a Broken Site panel.
The Send Report button will send site related data to Mozilla, so future Firefox versions can load that site working properly with Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled for everyone. By filling the optional Describe the problem field helps us fix the problem faster.
If disabling Enhanced Tracking Protection resolves issues with a broken site, consider submitting a Broken Site report to the Webcompat team. To do so:
For more information, see How do I report a broken site in Firefox desktop?
Adjust your global Enhanced Tracking Protection settingsWhen you download Firefox, all protections included in Standard Enhanced Tracking Protection are already enabled.
To view or change your Enhanced Tracking Protection settings for all sites, click the shield to the left of the address bar on any webpage and select . This will open the Firefox Settings Privacy & Security panel in a new tab.
These settings are also available from the Firefox menu:
Then select
.
Standard Enhanced Tracking ProtectionBy default, Firefox blocks the following on all sites:
To further increase privacy, select Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection. This will block the following:
Want to block some trackers and scripts, but not others? Use Custom Enhanced Tracking Protection.
You can also turn off all protections in Custom by deselecting all checkboxes. This allows all trackers and scripts to load.
Copy Clean LinkStarting with Firefox version 120, the Copy Clean Link feature is automatically enabled to safeguard users against URL-based tracking by stripping tracking parameters from any copied URL.
Copy from the address barTo copy URLs from the address bar stripping any tracking parameters it may have, do the following:
To copy URLs from in-page links stripping any tracking parameters it may have, do the following:
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