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by Yoric 2681 days ago
Note that Mozilla has been working on that feature for at least five years. For a very long time, it was not possible to land this without breaking gazillions of sites.

Apple can afford to be more aggressive, and force features such as ITP 2+, because of their iOS monopoly, and expect webdevs to scramble for fixes, but Mozilla doesn't have such leverage, so they need to avoid breaking the web.

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Also, they got their ass handed to them in a smear campaign when they tried blocking 3rd party cookies the first time around in 2013 [1] and ended up accepting these by default again.

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/web-advertisers-attack-...