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Stop cookies tracking you around the web

ookies pose as big a quandary when browsing the web on your phone as they do on your computer. Allow them in your browser and you risk them following you around the web, collecting data about your activities, but block them and many websites won’t work properly. Last year, Mozilla added a feature called Total Cookie Protection to Firefox, which addresses this problem by isolating cookies so they can’t track you to other sites and share your data with third parties such as advertisers.

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