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maintaining a full blown FOSS project and community, especially a browser, is a lot of work. most people likely give up pretty fast
maintaining a full blown FOSS project and community, especially a browser, is a lot of work. most people likely give up pretty fast
there is no way to verify they don’t actually log anything
Firefox by default has cookies and javascript on, which are also primarily ad-tech
Hard disagree, and I don’t think the majority of people would agree with you there either.
it’s not forced
By forced I meant not only is it opt-out and turned on by default, it’s turned on for existing users who never had that setting before either (so not just for new users).
Sane defaults like forced ad-tech?
Version 120 added a GPC option called “Tell websites not to sell or share my data”… too bad it doesn’t apply to Mozilla themselves.
Yes, there’s no reason everything can’t be opt-in.
as far as GDPR is concerned, yes I think federated services are illegal.
I wouldn’t be surprised if most CAs are secretly compromised. I’m surprised nobody ever talks about it or wants to know how they operate securely if at all.
Well you can’t have that because it guarantees you stay irrelevant and broke. Google did not make money off of you and you were never their target audience. Google and Chrome only ever existed because the majority of people click ads. Same thing here. Mozilla has been ad-funded since at least 2005.
Whoever reports this “anonymized” data still knows something about you, whether that’s a census employee at your physical house, or a website having your IP address. We can’t stop that information falling into the wrong hands. Bad actors are everywhere. All we can do is not provide the information in the first place.
opt-out (instead of opt-in) should be illegal.
It’s not on for me…
“Sent from my iPhone”
The vast majority of people do not read release notes or even know they exist.
There is nothing positive about what has been done here.
if by “community” you mean the majority of users… I think you are backwards in both of those. Most don’t care about what Andreas did, and most firefox users are outraged at this.
ah yes the all-important tebibytes.
Most firefox addons dont even have the permissions needed to change anything a website could observe.
Very strong disagree, I have seen and used many very widely used extensions that manipulate the DOM, which IMO satisfies your criteria of “something that can be observed” i.e. by javascript with a fingerprint tracker like creepjs.
Some examples:
ad blockers (uBO/uMatrix/etc.)
color/theme management (dark reader/dark theme/Stylish/etc.)
custom mouse cursor managers
page translators
addons serving in-browser ads
userscript managers (grease/tamper/violentmonkey etc.)
privacy blockers (CanvasBlocker/JShelter/etc.)
site-specific UI improvements (RES, SponsorBlock, youtube/SNS tweaks)
All of these can be detected and included as yet another bit of data that a unique fingerprint can be built from.
Yes you are right. I don’t think there is a realistic way for most people to be anonymous or private online anymore given all these offensive and invasive techniques being used regularly now. Hell cloudflare fingerprints people with TLS alone, and that doesn’t care about javascript or anything else above it.
perhaps you should look up how creepjs implements detection for known extensions
The source code of the frontend is unrelated to the webserver they use, which can absolutely store your IP.