1170194 - Detect third party tracking and alert the user

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

Using the Tracking Protection infrastructure, we could figure out how many other parties are tracking you on a given site and let the user know somehow. The idea would be that they could then enable TP if that concern them (or suppress the warnings).

Comment 1

[François Marier [:francois]]

Quick note about showing numbers of tracking third parties.

The tricky part about numbers is that trackers can load other trackers. So you might visit a page without TP that says "we have detected 20 trackers" and then after you enable TP, you get "we have blocked 5 trackers".

The difference is likely to cause user confusion and lead them to think that the feature is not very effective, so it's probably best not to put a number in the UI.

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Karen - We need some Product guidance for this

Comment 3

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

Adding Barbara for tracking and figuring out our plan for beyond Fx42

Comment 4

[Barbara Bermes [:barbara] - NI please!]

Finally able to NI clear this one, this will be part of our upcoming work after the Boston sec meeting.

Comment 5

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