1366354 - Allow a WebExtension to turn on Tracking Protection

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1345158

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Currently the ability to turn on tracking protection for Firefox is not exposed to the user, it is only available in private windows.

There are addons:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/qwantcom-for-firefox/

and others.

We should provide a web extension API to enable/disable tracking protection as long as we don't offer it in Firefox.

Comment 1

[:shell escalante]

bob, before we mark P2 triaged, do you have any comments?

Comment 2

[Bob Silverberg [:bsilverberg]]

My only comment is that there may already be a couple of duplicates for this. There's bug 1345158, in which I have pretty much already implemented this as part of the privacy API (but it hasn't been reviewed yet) and bug 1359862, in which Mark is working on a Tracking Protection API and I suggested he take over my work and implement the API for turning tracking protection on and off as part of his bug.

I think that bug 1359862 should dupe both this and my bug, but maybe we need to discuss that with Mark first.

Comment 3

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

bug 1359862 is the tracker for the tracking protection updates for webextensions so I think this should dupe Bob's in-progress bug 1345158.

I'll go through the tracker and make sure it's bugs are all up to date.