Mozilla Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default
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Mozilla Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default
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Re: Mozilla Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default
#2This is asinine. What is the point of a symphony of holistic privacy initiatives like the GDPR cookie policies on websites and a so-called "privacy browser" if the browser people inconsistently move away from opt-in to opt-out and sell-out their users?
Re: Mozilla Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default
#3Is this an official statement from Mozilla? If understood right, it says that because every tracking site already does, we will put it inside the browser.
It seems like one day Nike will say, we need to send the location of every step you take, where you're heading and the speed so we can make better shoes. And people just, yes, seems fair to me.
Re: Mozilla Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default
#4Is this an official statement from Mozilla? If understood right, it says that because every tracking site already does, we will put it inside the browser. It seems like one day Nike will say, we need to send the location of every step you take, where you're heading and the speed so we can make better shoes. And people just, yes, seems fair to me.
The problem is sites don't need ping to do their tracking. In the past, search engines would just force a redirect to gather all the metrics they want for which link you go to. Most browsers put ping in as default because it improves responsiveness by not forcing the redirect. Firefox simply hasn't changed that yet. It hardly changes their privacy position, IMO.
Check out the latest episode of Security Now, which talks about this. https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
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#5That's a shame. Now I have to either wait for someone to make an extension to disable hyperpings (so it can sync between all my Firefoxes rather than me having to manually change it every time) or learn to make one myself.
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#6Maybe now we can get rid of the god-forsaken javascript hell that does link tracking or the multiple bounces between servers before a redirect.
Re: Mozilla Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default
#7That's a shame. Now I have to either wait for someone to make an extension to disable hyperpings (so it can sync between all my Firefoxes rather than me having to manually change it every time) or learn to make one myself.
uBlock Origin already blocks this feature.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Settings#d...
Re: Mozilla Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default
#8As long as I can turn it off in about:config (and it won't try to automatically change the setting for me without my permission) I don't care if it is on or off by default.
Re: Mozilla Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default
#9There's always Microsoft Edge Beta.
And in all likelihood it works with that un-ping addon for Chrome.
Re: Mozilla Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default
#10As long as I can turn it off in about:config (and it won't try to automatically change the setting for me without my permission) I don't care if it is on or off by default.
In fact, having it on by default is better for people who are privacy conscious. If everyone has it off by default, then no site will implement it. If it's opt-out, the average site is more likely to use it rather than using JS tracking.
It's kind of like Do Not Track. Once IE enabled it by default, every single ad network stopped honoring it.