1559969 - Move cryptomining blocking to the Standard mode of content blocking

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Privacy: Anti-Tracking, task)

Description

[Steven Englehardt [:englehardt]]

Cryptomining blocking is currently set for Strict in Beta and Release. We should move it to Standard for Firefox 69 release.

Comment 1

[Steven Englehardt [:englehardt]]

Attachment: Bug 1559969 - Enable cryptomining blocking by default. r=baku

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/d8a3b12ffb3d
Enable cryptomining blocking by default. r=baku

Comment 3

[Andrei Ciure[:aciure]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d8a3b12ffb3d

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

The strict category pref still includes cryptomining: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/da3f3eaaacb6fb344fd21ac29ace2da0e33f12d3/browser/app/profile/firefox.js#1608.

Was this the correct fix for the bug?

Comment 5

[Erica Wright [:ewright]]

(In reply to :Ehsan Akhgari from comment #4)

The strict category pref still includes cryptomining: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/da3f3eaaacb6fb344fd21ac29ace2da0e33f12d3/browser/app/profile/firefox.js#1608.

Was this the correct fix for the bug?

Yes, this is correct. "move" is perhaps not the best choice of words. Cryptomining blocking should be enabled in both strict and standard. We wouldn't want standard to block something which is not also blocked in strict.

Comment 6

[(no longer active)]

Thanks for checking!

Comment 7

[Ciprian Georgiu, Desktop QA]

This bug is verified as fixed on Beta 69.0b5. I've checked that Cryptomining is moved to Standard accordingly, across platforms: Windows 10 x64, macOS 10.13 and Ubuntu 18.04 x64.