Intelligent Tracking Prevention

Full Title or Meme

A means to prevent Third Parties in browser sessions from tracking the user across different first part web sites.

References

• See the wiki page on Redirects for how cookies are handled during a redirection from a first party to a third party.

Context

• Privacy of users on the web has been compromised by the user of tracking by third parties that are referenced by the first party, or the party to which the user navigated.
• Back in 2017 Apple introduced Intelligent Tracking Prevention] as a means to maintain "user trust. Many users feel that trust is broken when they are being tracked and privacy-sensitive data about their web activity is acquired for purposes that they never agreed to."
• Since then other browsers have been adding similar functionality which is included in this wiki page.