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Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox for desktop

Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox for desktop

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 Dashboard

To 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 blocks

Firefox 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 Protection

Bounce 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 you

The shield to the left of the address bar tells you if Firefox is blocking trackers and scripts on a site.

How to tell what’s being blocked on a site

This panel will display different information depending on the site you’re on.

What to do if a site seems broken

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:

  1. Visit the website.
  2. At the left of the address bar, click the shield icon.
  3. At the top right of the panel, toggle off the Enhanced Tracking Protection switch . The site will be added to your Enhanced Tracking Protection exception list, allowing trackers on it, and the page will reload automatically.

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

Strict

Enhanced 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:

Report a broken site

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:

  1. Open the Report broken site panel. Either:
  2. The URL field will show up with the current tab URL, you can change it if you wish.
  3. Pick an option from the What's broken dropdown.
  4. Optionally, add a short description of the issue.
  5. To submit your report, click the Send button.
  6. A success message will confirm your submission. To conclude, click Okay.

For more information, see How do I report a broken site in Firefox desktop?

Adjust your global Enhanced Tracking Protection settings

When 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.

Tip:

These settings are also available from the Firefox menu:


In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click and then select or , depending on your macOS version.Click the menu button and select .

Then select

.

Standard Enhanced Tracking Protection

By default, Firefox blocks the following on all sites:

Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection

To further increase privacy, select Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection. This will block the following:

  1. Click the shield to the left of the address bar on any webpage.
  2. Click .
    The Firefox Settings Privacy & Security panel will open.
  3. Under Enhanced Tracking Protection, select .
  4. Select the button to apply your new privacy settings.
Custom Enhanced Tracking Protection

Want to block some trackers and scripts, but not others? Use Custom Enhanced Tracking Protection.

  1. Click the shield to the left of the address bar on any webpage.
  2. Click .
    The Firefox Settings Privacy & Security panel will open.
  3. Under Enhanced Tracking Protection, select .
  4. Choose which trackers and scripts to block by selecting those checkboxes.
  5. Select the button to apply your new privacy settings.

You can also turn off all protections in Custom by deselecting all checkboxes. This allows all trackers and scripts to load.

Copy Clean Link

Starting 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 bar

To copy URLs from the address bar stripping any tracking parameters it may have, do the following:

  1. Right-click the URL you want to copy and select .
  2. Paste the clean URL from the clipboard.
Copy from in-page links

To copy URLs from in-page links stripping any tracking parameters it may have, do the following:

  1. Right-click the URL you want to copy and select .
  2. Paste the clean URL from the clipboard.

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