Improve privacy usability and UX
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(Core :: Privacy: Anti-Tracking, enhancement)
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(Reporter: typewriter.typogeek, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0
Steps to reproduce:
Try to on-the-fly clear ALL cookies and related, stored personally identifiable data in prolonged sessions.
CTRL+H -> right click on 'Today' etc. -> delete
Go to menu -> Edit -> Preferences -> Data Protection & Privacy -> Clear Data -> Clear -> Clear Now
Actual results:
The procedure (of clearing all cookies and related data) is ultra-painful and seems to be designed to actually make it as hard as possible, to enforce a more private usage policy - as with almost all newer privacy-concerning features in FF.
Plus, oftentimes, there's remnants of several kB of cookie usage data, after clearing history like above.
Expected results:
We (users) require a prominent configurable button 'Clear data now', e. g. in the right upper corner, which actually clears ALL currently stored (super-)cookies, DOM storage, CORS etc., also from sqlite.db, and a timed option, to clear all configured data every x minutes.
In addition, there's HIGH requirement of fine-grained control, over all the neat, but potentially privacy- and security-invading features, Mozilla integrated into FF over the last few years, namely, all hidden API features, that allow for highly accurate user tracking and profiling:
API's like JS, Canvas, GFX, DOM storage, CORS, GEO, media, oberver, telemetry etc. require actually usable and fine-grained user controllability, if Mozilla really does value user's rights for privacy (as they often claim).
What's required, is something like a(n extendable) version of NoScript, directly implemented into FF, which gives users per-site and temporary/permanent controllability.
Like with JS, en-/disabling an API will impact ALL sites, which is not feasible anymore these days, where certain websites require them, while others don't and you want to make sure, that only your favorite websites have access to these, otherwise potentially harmful, features.
FF should really be leading the way, about those things that really matter, not just resorting to some unclear and nebulous 'Improved tracking protection' dropdown options, where nobody really knows, what they do.
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Privacy: Anti-Tracking' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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