{"id":300225,"date":"2019-12-12T14:41:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T21:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?p=300225"},"modified":"2021-04-15T08:45:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T15:45:15","slug":"weekly-platform-news-strict-tracking-protection-dark-web-pages-periodic-background-sync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/weekly-platform-news-strict-tracking-protection-dark-web-pages-periodic-background-sync\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Platform News: Strict Tracking Protection, Dark Web Pages, Periodic Background Sync"},"content":{"rendered":"
In this week’s news: Firefox gets strict, Opera goes to the dark side, and Chrome plans to let web apps run in the background.<\/p>\n
Let’s get into the news.<\/p>\n
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Mozilla has announced that the upcoming revamped Firefox for Android (currently available in a test version under the name “Firefox Preview”) will include strict tracking protection by default.<\/p>\n
On the phone or tablet, most users care much more about performance and blocking of annoyances compared to desktop. Users are more forgiving when a site doesn\u2019t load exactly like it\u2019s meant to. So we decided that while Firefox for desktop\u2019s default mode is “Standard,” Firefox Preview will use “Strict” mode.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Strict tracking protection additionally blocks “tracking content”: ads, videos, and other content with tracking code.<\/p>\n