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Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by brymaster »

pcwalton wrote: post #55
tick_tock_tick wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard of this bug on and off for years now. Clearly it's not important to the Firefox team that Firefox is a viable browser on mac. Every other browser / application seems to be able to work around/with the issues described except them.

I took over a month away from other work I have to do to develop the planeshift crate [1] to solve this exact problem. On the WebRender side, tiling work is advancing quickly as well. OS compositing in WR hasn't landed yet, mostly because work has to be done on the legacy Gecko side to wrangle the Cocoa widgets properly, but it's not true that nobody cares. [1]: https://github.com/pcwalton/planeshift

Thank you for your dedication on this. Now on the subject of energy use, how about the patch for the following critical macOS bug landing in a Firefox 67 point release?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1551990

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by arohner »

whizzkid wrote: post #4

It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years. 2014 me as a developer had Chrome as number 1 browser for both development and all rest. Firefox once a month just to check cross browser compatibility. And Safari was just installed without me using it. 2019 me uses Safari for everything except development. Excellent power consumption and UX. Firefox for development. And lastly Chrome for all web…

Brave is great for those "it only works in Chrome" sites

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by jammygit »

frenchman99 wrote: post #56

The article starts with: "It’s been several weeks since I was promoted to Senior Vice President of Firefox, responsible for overall Firefox product and web platform development." How is this relevant? Did Dave Camp's SVP appointment trigger these changes? Honest question, because this is the first sentence of the article and I'm having a hard time understanding why. Tracking protection is great though. I hope Firefox…

A local struggling theatre company has a new president and the theatre is thriving under him. He told us in private that everything about his public appearance is curated in order to give the theatre a face, and that its an important part of saving struggling theatres - to attach a face to it.

Maybe it’s the same thing?

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by baggy_trough »

whizzkid wrote: post #4

It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years. 2014 me as a developer had Chrome as number 1 browser for both development and all rest. Firefox once a month just to check cross browser compatibility. And Safari was just installed without me using it. 2019 me uses Safari for everything except development. Excellent power consumption and UX. Firefox for development. And lastly Chrome for all web…

The only thing I like about Chrome is the native personas.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by The_rationalist »

Please tell me I'm misunderstanding something! By enabling by default the blocking of those third party scripts: https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection/blocked

This Wil have three consequences: Many websites will partially break? Which ones? webmaster will lack many data necessary to understand what users do on their platform, where they missclick, what they don't use etc, thus diminishing the ability of webmasters to make great products. *the most dramatic one: People will see ads but the owner of a website will no longer earn ad money, because those are the third party scripts that allowed to prove to the ad platform that a user had effectively seen X ads.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by floatingatoll »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #5

I'm an existing Firefox user. Is there a short list of settings to check to make sure this "Enhanced Tracking Protection" is enabled? In short, I'm looking for a list of instructions: go to Options > Privacy and Security > Content Blocking > make sure cookies is set to at least "All third party cookies...".

I think you’re just about right - it’s Options > Privacy > Content > Custom > “Block third-party trackers”.

(It is not “Block all third-party cookies”, make sure to select the correct one.)

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

It appears this would block pretty much all the major analytics tracking cookies (e.g. Google analytics, mixpanel, etc.) based on the linked Disconnect list, https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection .

While I realize that's kind of the point, in my mind there is somewhat of a difference between "the site I'm on is tracking me to figure out how I use their site" vs. "any site I visit is essentially aggregated data because all the sites use the same major trackers and ad networks". I wonder if the big analytics companies will need to change their business model, or at least their tech, to account for these kinds of changes.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by bashinator »

shrikant wrote: post #12
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there Chrome-only webapps you use that don't just work with a User-Agent switcher?

Most Google apps only just about "work" on Firefox. They're clearly optimised for Chromium and it shows. I use Firefox for all my browsing needs except for Google apps, for which I keep an install of Vivaldi around. I only really fire up Chrome if some stupid internal workplace app refuses to work on anything else. It truly is the new IE.

For example, I cannot copy and paste text in Google Docs in Firefox.
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