Mozilla’s newest Firefox browser launch has a brand new characteristic that stops websites like Facebook from monitoring you throughout web sites, Bleeping Computer has reported. Called Query Parameter Stripping, it routinely removes strings of characters added to the tip of an URL that permit Facebook, Hubspot, Olytics and different corporations to trace your clicks and serve focused adverts.

You’ve doubtless seen these queries whenever you click on on a hyperlink that comes from Facebook, for instance. Rather than displaying “https://www.engadget.com/example.html,” it’d present one thing like “https://www.engadget.com/example.html?fbclid=aa7-V4yb6Yfit_9_Pd” (not an actual instance). 

That jumble of characters after the query mark is a question parameter that may inform an organization you have clicked on a hyperlink, serving to them profile you for advert concentrating on. If you allow the stripping characteristic within the newest model of Firefox, it will take away these characters earlier than loading the URL, so Facebook will likely be none the wiser. It works through a blocklist and covers Olytics, Drip, Vero, HubSpot, Marketo and Facebook. 

To allow the characteristic, you merely choose “Strict” for “Enhanced Tracking Protection” within the Privacy & Security settings. That does not work in Private Mode, however you’ll be able to flip it on there too by typing “about:config” within the handle bar, trying to find strip and setting the ‘privateness.query_stripping.enabled.pbmode’ choice to true, as Bleeping Computer factors out.