Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default
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#2Does this mean that analytics will also be blocked? If it is true it will be a shot in the foot, because Google pays a lot of money to Mozilla. Translated automatically.
Re: Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default
#3Does this mean that analytics will also be blocked? If it is true it will be a shot in the foot, because Google pays a lot of money to Mozilla. Translated automatically.
All trackers are equal, but some trackers are more equal than others.
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#4Does this mean that analytics will also be blocked? If it is true it will be a shot in the foot, because Google pays a lot of money to Mozilla. Translated automatically.
Firefox/Mozilla is not as reliant on Google anymore as it once was, having diversified which search engine gets set in which area. There would also still be a reason for google to be the default search engine even in a browser that blocks third party trackers by default, namely the original reason of getting users to use your search engine. So I don't see a problem here and I doubt Google would or could force Mozilla to not make that change, even though the business people in Google probably don't like it.
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#5Will this also force Do Not Track to be on, similar to the current tracking blocklists in Firefox? That's the primary reason why I have it turned off and rely on uBlock Origin + a few other extensions.
Re: Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default
#6Does this mean that analytics will also be blocked? If it is true it will be a shot in the foot, because Google pays a lot of money to Mozilla. Translated automatically.
One of the main reasons to use Firefox these days is to be more free from the tentacles of Google. So this move is a logical step in the right direction. If you're OK with being permanently tracked by Google, you might as well use Chrome.
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#7Do you use server side visitor tracking on your projects? This will probably if not already shift analytics more to the backend.
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#8I think this is a bad idea. Even though I personally block 3rd party trackers by default, breaking the web by default will cause problems.
Also, ad blocking will start being a problem when enough people start doing it. I still remember the days of no websites yelling at you for blocking their ads. Things are going to get much worse.
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#9I think this is a bad idea. Even though I personally block 3rd party trackers by default, breaking the web by default will cause problems. Also, ad blocking will start being a problem when enough people start doing it. I still remember the days of no websites yelling at you for blocking their ads. Things are going to get much worse.
breaking the web by default will cause problems
Doesn't Safari already do this (or something like this)?
Safari works pretty well on most web sites. So what will Firefox be doing differently that will "break" the web?
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#10What is a "tracker" here? How will Firefox determine that?