Hello, to activate the Global Privacy Control in Firefox Nightly follow the following steps: 1. Type about:config in the URL bar of your Firefox browser. 2. In the search box, type 'globalprivacycontrol'. 3. Toggle 'privacy.globalprivacycontrol.enabled' to true. 4. Toggle 'privacy.globalprivacycontrol.functionality.enabled' to true. 5. You’re all set!

WARNING: Changing preferences through this interface not officially supported Hidden settings edited using the about:config tool are explicitly not supported, which means that Mozilla makes no guarantees they will be supported in the future, or that Mozilla will fix them if they break. Mozilla does not test these preferences, and will not in the future. That includes security and performance testing which these preferences may affect.

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To make sure GPC is turned on in Firefox Nightly, visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/. The website will flag if the GPC signal has been detected. “GPC signal not detected” by the globalprivacycontrol.org website = GPC is not on in your browser “GPC signal detected” by the globalprivacycontrol.org website = GPC is on in your browser

Are you referring to Enhanced Tracking Protection? Standard protection is enabled by default.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/smartblock-enhanced-tracking-protection https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/trackers-and-scripts-firefox-blocks-enhanced-track

Is Global Privacy Control (GPC) planned for a specific upcoming Firefox release?

I've read this article (https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2021/10/28/implementing-global-privacy-control/) which states that GPC is available in Firefox 95... What I mean is, when will it be enabled by default?

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