Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
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Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
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Re: Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
#2> You probably wouldn’t appreciate someone tracking your moves in real life. There’s no reason to accept it online.
Great to read something like this on mozilla.org.
Re: Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
#3As always when it comes to Firefox and privacy, the question is why isn't it on by default?
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#4As always when it comes to Firefox and privacy, the question is why isn't it on by default?
Because it may cause some websites to break and they're aiming to provide a good user-experience for the majority of the population. If they turn this on by default without users knowing the risks of sites not working correctly, they'll unfairly blame Firefox, bad mouth it, and switch to Chrome/Edge/Safari/etc.
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#5As always when it comes to Firefox and privacy, the question is why isn't it on by default?
Because it may cause some websites to break and they're aiming to provide a good user-experience for the majority of the population. If they turn this on by default without users knowing the risks of sites not working correctly, they'll unfairly blame Firefox, bad mouth it, and switch to Chrome/Edge/Safari/etc.
That's the stated reason but it's pretty weak to me. Safari hasn't had to make similar compromises.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because it may cause some websites to break and they're aiming to provide a good user-experience for the majority of the population. If they turn this on by default without users knowing the risks of sites not working correctly, they'll unfairly blame Firefox, bad mouth it, and switch to Chrome/Edge/Safari/etc.
That's the stated reason but it's pretty weak to me. Safari hasn't had to make similar compromises.
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#7Google Recaptcha becomes absolutely unbearable once you use this and also block Google cookies on non-Google sites.
Given all that, features like this will not make their way to Chrome.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because it may cause some websites to break and they're aiming to provide a good user-experience for the majority of the population. If they turn this on by default without users knowing the risks of sites not working correctly, they'll unfairly blame Firefox, bad mouth it, and switch to Chrome/Edge/Safari/etc.
That's the stated reason but it's pretty weak to me. Safari hasn't had to make similar compromises.
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Re: Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
#9> You probably wouldn’t appreciate someone tracking your moves in real life. There’s no reason to accept it online. Great to read something like this on mozilla.org.
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#10Yes, the same browser that sent the raw browsing history of a portion of users to a third party. Talk about tracking!
>Users who receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz will have their browsing activity sent to Cliqz servers, including the URLs of pages they visit.
https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...