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makeasnek@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you

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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you

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Attached: 1 image So this, from Firefox, is fucking toxic: https://mstdn.social/@Lokjo/112772496939724214 You might be aware Chrome— a browser made by an ad company— has been trying to claw back the limitations recently placed on ad networks by the death of third-party cookies, and added new features that gather and report data directly to ad networks. You'd know this because Chrome displayed a popup. If you're a Firefox user, what you probably don't know is Firefox added this feature and *has already turned it on without asking you*
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    Someone tell me pls which browsers are developed by actually decent people? I’ll switch

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      Firefox is a good example

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      If you’ve already read through this and understand what it means and are still worried about your privacy, I would recommend you switch to LibreWolf - it takes all the best practices of hardening Firefox for security and works out of the box. Unfortunately, this means you can’t play certain videos, it doesn’t auto-update, and some - likely many - websites will break/not work. This is the price to pay for true privacy. If you don’t want that, just keep using Firefox.

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        I’ve been using Librewolf for years and pages not working are extremely rare.

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          That and the pages that don’t work are trying to force a fingerprinting/tracking technique you shouldn’t want to allow anyways.

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            Or they use WebGL. I keep a chromium install just for that.

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              cloned reply

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      Sure. Firefox is developed by lovely people.

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      You aren’t happy with your selection of free software and still have the audacity to call the people behind that names? You didn’t even read the article did you.

      Be a “decent” person yourself and start your own browser. We’ll happily judge.

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        My browser will have blackjack and hookers…

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      The article is a huge misrepresentation and the author is an idiot.

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