If you're serious about protecting your information online, Firefox and its privacy suite can protect your personal data as you browse websites.

By default, Mozilla Firefox for Windows and Mac OS will protect you from trackers who collect your browsing history, cookies from sites you visit, which follow you from one site to another (which is how you advertise), and prospectors For cryptocurrencies who secretly use your device's resources to extract cryptocurrencies, it is a fingerprint reader that uniquely identifies you based on your device, settings and apps.

But most of the work that Firefox does for you to protect your privacy happens in the background, so to highlight how far websites go to track you online, Firefox now comes with a privacy report that gives you a real-time view of how many websites try to gather information about you without your consent. .

Here's how to use the new Privacy Protection report in Firefox:

1. Make sure you are using Firefox 70 (you can download it for free from the Internet).

2. In the address bar, click the shield icon to the left (the shield will be dark gray if Firefox does not detect trackers on the web page, and blue purple if it blocks anything).

3. In the Blocked area, click a name to see exactly which tracking tools, cookies, and any other items Firefox has blocked from tracking you on the webpage you open.

4- Towards the bottom of the list (caused by clicking on the shield icon) click "Security Settings" to manage how Firefox protects you.

5. Finally at the bottom of the list click "Show Report" to view a daily report on the tracking tools blocked by Firefox.