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Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

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Re: Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

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Post by wasdfff »

floatboth wrote: post #103
Vinnl wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not usable on mobile, but one extension you might be interested in is Trash Panda: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trash-bear/ Whenever I see a link to a website I suspect of siphoning off all my data (usually news websites), I right-click it and select "Open in new Trash Container". Do my thing, then close the tab, and all cookies and such for that site are cleared. It's almost like a Firefox Focus ta…

Or you could go all in with Multi-Account + Temporary containers :)

Tried that for a month and I couldn’t stand it.

When you open a link that opens in a new container, you loose the history that brought you to that link. Clicking a link actually opens a new tab and simultaneously closes your current one. Going backwards is now broken and you have to shift cmd t to go through all your recently closed tabs or dig through your history if you are a user who regularly uses back on a browser.

I also ran into a bug where infinite temporary containers would open until the browser finally crashed. The fix was removing the add on.

Great idea, sloppy implementation.

Re: Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

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Post by Santosh83 »

dessant wrote: post #66
vezycash wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use Buster captha solver addon

Thanks for recommending Buster (author here), but I think the right solution is to encourage people to stand up against Google's abuse, especially because they are working on making reCAPTCHA even more pervasive an inescapable. The recommended way of integrating reCAPTCHA v3 is to load it on every page of your site, not just on pages with forms. Given the popularity of this service, reCAPTCHA v3 is set to become a br…

What is the rationale for recommending reCAPTCHA on every page of a site??

Re: Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

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Post by [deleted] »

floatboth wrote: post #94
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #21

The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked. I used to be able to use Firefox Focus (which has tracking protection built-in) to pay most of my bills. This was convenient because I would just open up the one site in FFF, pay the bill, and then close it, with all browsing history automatically deleted. In the past month about 3 of…

That particular example is just extremely odd because… well, the business model of the utilities whose bills you pay (nor the bank's) shouldn't be based on advertising?? Maybe it's just a pile of web development fail, using 3rd party cookies for no good reason..

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Re: Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

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Post by irrational »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #21

The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked. I used to be able to use Firefox Focus (which has tracking protection built-in) to pay most of my bills. This was convenient because I would just open up the one site in FFF, pay the bill, and then close it, with all browsing history automatically deleted. In the past month about 3 of…

It's a pain, but what I do is pay by utility bills in other ways. Usually I can pay in person, over the phone, via a check in the mail, or login once and setup automatic billing.

Re: Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

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Post by magduf »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #21

The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked. I used to be able to use Firefox Focus (which has tracking protection built-in) to pay most of my bills. This was convenient because I would just open up the one site in FFF, pay the bill, and then close it, with all browsing history automatically deleted. In the past month about 3 of…

>In the past month about 3 of my credit card sites stopped working on FFF, as well as my ISP's site.

Which sites are these? When you make claims like this, you should specifically name the businesses that do this, so the rest of us can try to avoid them.

Re: Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

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Post by matonias »

svnpenn wrote: post #43

Honestly its getting out of hand. I have everything blocked I can think of [1], and even browsing in private mode, I still sometimes get the "recommended for you" on YouTube. Stop invading my privacy. [1] https://cup.github.io/rosso/youtube

One tip: get a channel blocker extension (just like you would block people on Twitter), so you don’t see any videos of that channel.

Besides that, I have block the whole recommandation landing page that Youtube gives you with uBlock, since it was huge distraction for me

Re: Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

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Post by magduf »

hospadar wrote: post #89
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #21

The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked. I used to be able to use Firefox Focus (which has tracking protection built-in) to pay most of my bills. This was convenient because I would just open up the one site in FFF, pay the bill, and then close it, with all browsing history automatically deleted. In the past month about 3 of…

I think helps expose the actual (bidirectional) flow of information - web sites give you stuff because you give them stuff. Usually you give them personal info about what you do on their site so that they can monetize you, in return you get news, messaging, etc. If you're unwilling to give them that stuff, maybe it's OK that they are unwilling to give you their (presumably valuable, because you're requesting it) stuf…

We're not talking about news or content sites here, we're talking about bill-paying sites. People should be able to pay their utility bills with whatever browser they want, without being tracked. The argument over free content vs. ads is a valid argument, but it doesn't apply here at all.

Re: Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

magduf wrote: post #115
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #21

The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked. I used to be able to use Firefox Focus (which has tracking protection built-in) to pay most of my bills. This was convenient because I would just open up the one site in FFF, pay the bill, and then close it, with all browsing history automatically deleted. In the past month about 3 of…

>In the past month about 3 of my credit card sites stopped working on FFF, as well as my ISP's site. Which sites are these? When you make claims like this, you should specifically name the businesses that do this, so the rest of us can try to avoid them.

I avoided doing so because I don't really want the internet to know what credit cards I have.

With that said, let's say I specifically name "Chase". Are you going to cancel your existing Chase bank account or credit card upon hearing this?

Re: Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

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Post by gbear605 »

floatboth wrote: post #94
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #21

The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked. I used to be able to use Firefox Focus (which has tracking protection built-in) to pay most of my bills. This was convenient because I would just open up the one site in FFF, pay the bill, and then close it, with all browsing history automatically deleted. In the past month about 3 of…

That particular example is just extremely odd because… well, the business model of the utilities whose bills you pay (nor the bank's) shouldn't be based on advertising?? Maybe it's just a pile of web development fail, using 3rd party cookies for no good reason..

I’ve seen sites fail to load if google analytics doesn’t load, so that could be it.

Re: Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

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Post by flyinglizard »

Santosh83 wrote: post #112
dessant wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for recommending Buster (author here), but I think the right solution is to encourage people to stand up against Google's abuse, especially because they are working on making reCAPTCHA even more pervasive an inescapable. The recommended way of integrating reCAPTCHA v3 is to load it on every page of your site, not just on pages with forms. Given the popularity of this service, reCAPTCHA v3 is set to become a br…

What is the rationale for recommending reCAPTCHA on every page of a site??

Blocking scrapers?
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