Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default

Post by fooqux » Fri, Feb 22, 2019, 5:06 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #123

adtac wrote: post #82

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I wish DNT was honoured, but it's as good as a "do not commit crime" sign.

DNT is practically defunct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#History In January 2019 W3C Tracking Protection Working Group concluded work on Do Not Track standard citing "insufficient deployment of these extensions" and lack of "indications of planned support among user agents, third parties, and the ecosystem at large." In February 2019 Apple Safari 12.1 was released without support for DNT to avoid it bei…

Post by mi100hael » Fri, Feb 22, 2019, 5:11 PM UTC

bfrydl wrote: post #116

fimdomeio wrote: post #11

One thing mentioned on the responses that might be really concerning is the fact that this will mean that for a lot of analytics it will look like firefox usage is close to zero. No usage data, devs caring less about firefox, users having more problems when using firefox, less users using firefox, less users having 3rd party trackers blocked, chrome monopoly growing.

In my experience as a long-term Firefox user, developers already don't care about Firefox. It's amazing how many websites I visit that break or look awful until I switch to Chromium.

Post by scriptkiddy » Fri, Feb 22, 2019, 5:16 PM UTC

reitanqild wrote: post #73

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And users who report having issues with Firefox will be told to use Chrome (that is what's already happening)

And we will shout back : ) I'm already on it as might be seen here. Feel free to complain loud and clear if it doesn't work in FF. Make it clear that FF support isn't optional. Also on my to do list: complain even more, including to relevant authorities about Googles abuse of market position to push their browser. Feel free to join me here as well. (And to be sure: feel free to complain when supposedly mainstream sit…

Post by tialaramex » Fri, Feb 22, 2019, 5:19 PM UTC

darkpuma wrote: post #38

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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…

Mozilla released the extension "Facebook Container", which is great, but that's only one of the FANG companies notorious for invading privacy. Where is the "Google Container" extension from Mozilla? There exists such an extension but it's by a third party, not by Mozilla. It would be nice to see it from Mozilla since I trust them more than I trust some random extension developer; I can feel confident in recommending…

Post by tetraca » Fri, Feb 22, 2019, 5:21 PM UTC

cphoover wrote: post #134

icebraining wrote: post #90

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> and they combine the cookie ids. And how do they do that? The "advantage" of third-party tracking is that a cookie set by the analytics service on site A gets sent back when the user goes to site B and C and D (etc). Without that, they have to somehow figure out that user 34 on site A is the same as user 95 on site B. That's often possible, but much less reliable.

Browser fingerprinting? How do you defeat that? If people want to track... they will track.