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Re: Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside

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Post by krono »

amatecha wrote: post #60
krono wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is entirely false, you must be blocking the requests on the network level or something. For one the getfirefox.com redirect includes tracking parameters in the destination URL, then there's Google Tag Manager, there is Sentry, some pages with their first party analytics solutions like Glean and more.

I installed uBlock Origin, with my Privacy settings set to normal/default, and there is nothing blocked (normally the plugin would show a long list of blocked analytics stuff). No clue, are you using Firefox as well? Not sure what the difference is with our experiences, but I see not a shred of Google or analytics-related network requests when I navigate to getfirefox.com . It DOES have a query param in the destinati…

That's interesting, I'm indeed seeing some differences between browsers on those pages but those aren't exactly baseline setups. I'll have to do a more thorough comparison tomorrow and will reply with my findings.

Re: Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside

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Post by krono »

krono wrote: post #61
amatecha wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I installed uBlock Origin, with my Privacy settings set to normal/default, and there is nothing blocked (normally the plugin would show a long list of blocked analytics stuff). No clue, are you using Firefox as well? Not sure what the difference is with our experiences, but I see not a shred of Google or analytics-related network requests when I navigate to getfirefox.com . It DOES have a query param in the destinati…

That's interesting, I'm indeed seeing some differences between browsers on those pages but those aren't exactly baseline setups. I'll have to do a more thorough comparison tomorrow and will reply with my findings.

Having some issues with the system I want to use for these tests. Expecting to get this done over the weekend.

Re: Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside

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Post by XCSme »

hulitu wrote: post #32
maronato wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Analytics isn’t even intrinsically bad. There are so many privacy-friendly analytics tools today (Fathom, Plausible, etc), and lots of them can even be self hosted. Saying you don’t collect data, then using Google for data collection is very disingenuous. Is “privacy” the new buzzword? Seems like with “AI” before it, privacy is being thrown around by startups as a way to pad landing pages and attract naive u…

> Is “privacy” the new buzzword? It is not new. It is going on since some years. A lot of companies (hello Microsoft) say that they care about your privacy, while collecting every piece of it.

The privacy laws are new(ish), which is what makes companies even consider the privacy side of things nowadays.

Re: Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside

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Post by nulld3v »

josephcsible wrote: post #27
nulld3v wrote: post #2

> Download videos with a single tap. > Screenshot showing video downloading from youtube.com This app is on the play store. Unfortunately, it won't be for long given Google's opinion of YT downloaders. Firefox's YT background play was killed by this.

> Firefox's YT background play was killed by this. Do you know of a link to any more details about that?

Ah, sorry, it actually turns out I was wrong. Google did kill it, but they killed it by adding some JS on YouTube and not by making Firefox blacklist YouTube background playback: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1355407
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