6.10 Enable Enhanced Tracking Protection

Information

This setting controls whether Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection is enabled. Enhanced Tracking Protection will automatically block known third-party tracking cookies.

Rationale:

Allowing third-party cookies could potentially allow tracking of your web activities by third-party entities which may expose information that could be used for an attack on the end-user.

Impact:

Disabling third-party cookies could cause some websites to not function as expected.

Solution

To establish the recommended configuration, set browser.contentblocking.category to true:

Type about:config in the address bar

Type browser.contentblocking.category in the filter

Ensure the setting is set as prescribed.

OR

Open the mozilla.cfg file in the installation directory with a text editor

Add the following lines to mozilla.cfg:

lockPref('browser.contentblocking.category', true);

Default Value:

True (Enabled).

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/4299

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7a.

Plugin: Unix

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