What is First-Party Isolation in Firefox and what breaks if you enabled it

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Apr 16, 2018

First-Party Isolation can help you improve your online privacy by reducing websites’ abilities to track you between different websites. However, it’s not a magic solution and comes with a few different drawbacks. Here is a look at some of the things you can expect to break and how to work around the issues.

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