Tracking Protection in Firefox For Privacy and Performance - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Tracking Protection in Firefox For Privacy and Performance

Protecting user privacy from online tracking ● ● ● 2 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Tracking protection for Firefox ● ● ● ● ● 3 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

User visits are tracked across sites 4 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Tracked user gets personalized third-party content 5 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Tracking leaks 40% of browsing history to third parties 6 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Users don’t appreciate being stalked online 7 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Network attackers piggyback on user tracking ● ● 8 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Blocking cookies is not enough 9 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Tracking protection for Firefox 35 ● ● ○ ○ ● ○ ○ ○ 10 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Tracking protection UI 11 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Tracking protection UI 12 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Users exposed to significantly fewer third parties 13 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Users exposed to significantly fewer third parties 14 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Pages load faster ✔ 15 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Pages load faster 16 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Future work ● ○ ● ○ ● ○ ● ○ ■ ○ ■ 17 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu

Try Tracking protection in Firefox today! 18 kontaxis@cs.columbia.edu