1482282 - Add content blocking pref to the TP policies

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Enterprise Policies, enhancement, P3)

Description

[François Marier [:francois]]

Bug 1476217 introduced browser.contentblocking.enabled which will control all user-visible content blocking in Firefox (e.g. tracking protection).

Since we have enterprise policies for tracking protection:

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/aff5d4ad5d7fb2919d267cbc23b1d87ae3cf0110/browser/components/enterprisepolicies/Policies.jsm#395-410

should we also add this new pref?

Comment 1

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Yes we should. It looks like there are other new prefs besides this one?

Comment 2

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

(In reply to Mike Kaply [:mkaply] from comment #1)
> Yes we should. It looks like there are other new prefs besides this one?

Yes, there's also the new FastBlock feature (browser.fastblock.enabled, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=fastblock) and Third Party Cookie Restrictions (which is managed through network.cookie.cookieBehavior, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473978)

Comment 3

[François Marier [:francois]]

Note that a decision on whether or not FastBlock will ship is pending the results from a Shield study (bug 1475424). The same is true of the third-party cookie restrictions, though there's no bug for that Shield study yet.

Comment 4

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Here's what Microsoft's policy looks like:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#trackingprevention

Should this new policy just map directly to

Standard
Strict
Off

Not sure what the right thing to do is.

Comment 5

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

I can discuss this with the team

Comment 6

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

I think Mike and I discussed this on Slack some time ago, I think that our policies should map to Standard and Strict, though I'm not sure whether we want to provide an "Off" option or a "Custom" option where more advanced settings can be applied (e.g. to disable referrer protection, which could be useful to some internal tools).

Comment 7

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

So we added new Cookies policies which I think is as far as we're going to go with this.