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It could be interesting to have a drop-down in the browser to select a "who I want to be today" profile and be able to see the world from that perspective.
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they're there for denying access to automated scripts.
This is the reason they exist in the first place, but doesn't answer the question why they're implemented this particular way.
Firefox is playing its trump, the privacy, very well lately. This is very smart as the competition has no good answer. Equalizing on privacy level would go against their business model so they won't ever do it wholeheartedly. Trying out Firefox now...
> Equalizing on privacy level would go against their business model... More importantly it would go against the mission statement. Mozilla isn't around to make money, it's around to make progress toward a mission. (Search revenue helps fund that, but revenue is not the end goal for Mozilla).
It seems that almost weekly, I am reminded why I love Firefox because of some new thing Mozilla is doing. A lot of good decisions have been coming from them lately.
FF is my primary browser, yet people I know that work in security laugh at me as they claim FF is always the first browser to fail in the hacker games. I don't know enough about why, but I'd love for that to not be a thing. Taking into account my threat profile (types of sites I visit, JS blocking, etc), I feel the hacking risk is still a worth while trade off for the lack of tracking.
I think things have improved though.
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17.62 bits on firefox, 11.0 on Tor, 17.63 on chrome. On firefox, the big contributors are HTTP headers (my native language is announced), hash of WebGl fingerprint and time zone. On Tor big contributors are hash of webGL fingerprint, screen size. On chrome, they are system fonts, hash of canvas fingerprint, user agent, and time zone. I am not too concerned about the fingerprinting in firefox since I have strict block…
> On Tor big contributors are hash of webGL fingerprint, screen size. Doesn't tor randomise the window size on startup? Though I guess it chooses some sensible size for your screen which is then leaking info about your screen size (in a pretty indirect way).
https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/15705/why-does-tor-b...
I've been really impressed with Firefox Quantum for the steps they've taken towards privacy and transparency. This definitely seems like the edge that Mozilla will have when trying to stand out against Chromium-based browsers going forward (especially now that everyone else seems to base their browser off of Chromium).
I know Mozilla has been working hard on the engine (rewrite with Rust?) and new versions like Firefox Focus on mobile is blazing fast, but keeping a separate renderer (and developer tools!), with its own issues and discrepancies, seems like a lot of sweat and pain when the Chromium project seems decently sound OSS. I know being able to put in practice your own interpretation of standards is a great exercise in freedom and web diversity, which seems to reinforce their mission, but still... the end result is probably millions in economic impact worldwide to keep website codebases aligned with browser standards, even if the differences are apparently minimal and 99% of the time it just works.
Is being a fully independent browser Mozilla's main raison d'être?
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Google's reCAPTCHA is cancer upon the web. Everyone should enable fingerprint block to shut this invasive and abusive garbage. If everyone would block it the website owners would have no choice other than to move to a different captcha system.
Do you know of any good alternatives? I would love to get rid off recaptcha but it is a very convenient and quick to set up way to stop most spam bots.
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Cloudflare must be mentioned when talking about recaptcha and cancer. They are the ones locking people out from whole websites and forcing you to fill out these recaptchas. They are also the ones who have almost destroyed browsing the internet using TOR due to these recaptchas.
While I agree with you -- I'd also like to point out that >90% of malicious traffic to the websites I administer comes through the Tor network. It shouldn't be the case, and I don't want to block people who have a legitimate reason to use Tor. Unfortunately there isn't a "block Tor traffic from assholes" option, so all I can really do to reduce the malicious traffic is block exit nodes.
> Unfortunately there isn't a "block Tor traffic from assholes" option
What exactly is "Tor traffic from assholes"? Bulk DDoS attacks? E-mail spam? SSH login attempts? Please share your valuable experience with everyone here, so that all of us could stay safe by learning from your example.
As always when it comes to Firefox and privacy, the question is why isn't it on by default?
Individuals’ security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.[1]