“ Digital fingerprinting ” is a way for advertisers and other, even less scrupulous people (if there is such a thing) to track you online. Going far beyond simple cookies, these systems can track specific, unique users across the web. Firefox browser maker Mozilla is fighting back, integrating more aggressive protections against fingerprinting in its latest update.

Mozilla has rolled out a new version of Enhanced Tracking Protection that’s, well, even more enhanced. According to the company’s Distilled blog, the new changes can reduce effective single-user tracking from over 60 percent of users down to below twenty percent.

This is achieved with a variety of techniques meant to befuddle the automated systems that use your hardware and software settings to identify specific users and

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