Setting up

Tracking Protection

in Mozilla Firefox 10 and 11

Select “Tools”

Click “Options”

Choose the “Privacy” tab

Select “Tell web sites I do not want to be tracked” – this will tell

advertisers your tracking preference

Below that, you can decide which cookies to accept, and for how

long

Add exceptions to cookie-blocked sites if needed

You can also block cookies from third party advertisers by

subscribing to “block” lists.

Select “Tools” again, and then “Add-ons”

Mozilla Firefox offers many Add-ons to protect user privacy. Here

are some of the most popular Add-ons.

• Ghostery blocks the invisible tracking cookies and plug-ins on many web

sites, shows it all to you, and then gives you the choice whether you want to

block them one-by-one, or all together.

• Adblock Plus stops social networking sites from transmitting data about

you after you leave those sites, even if the page you visit has a social plugin

on it.

• Do Not Track Plus is the Do Not Track app that sends a request to

websites not to track you, with a “plus” of also stopping third-party data

exchanges. So, when you visit a site with Facebook, Twitter and Google+

buttons on it, your browser will tell the network that you're on a site with

those buttons, and no information will be sent until you choose to click one.

• Priv3 is a new extension that will protect you from third-party cookies set by

Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn. Like Do Not Track Plus, it

doesn't remove elements from a page—it simply makes them inactive until

you interact with them.

Let’s use Adblock Plus for this example. In the “Get Add-ons” tab,

type “Adblock Plus” in the search bar, and hit Enter.

Click “Install” Adblock Plus.

The tool will be installed once Firefox restarts.

Finally, if you aren’t sure whether to accept

cookies from a website, read their privacy

policy and find out what they do with the

information they gather from users!