Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default • Hacker News Board

Re: Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default

#21

Post by MikusR » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 10:58 PM UTC

fittslickare wrote: post #20

MikusR wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an option you have to turn off manually

Since when?

September

Re: Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default

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Post by MikusR » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 11:04 PM UTC

fittslickare wrote: post #14

MikusR wrote: post #10

Dear Mozilla stop including unblockable Google analytics in your browser.

Please explain what you mean.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753546

Re: Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default

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Post by generalpass » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 11:40 PM UTC

> You might have seen a Facebook ‘like’ button on websites outside of Facebook.

Why not address this to webmasters?

Re: Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default

#24

Post by c0nducktr » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 1:26 AM UTC

MikusR wrote: post #21

fittslickare wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since when?

September

Just checked on a brand new profile for the release AND nightly channels, and neither have dns-over-https on by default.

Re: Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default

#25

Post by c0nducktr » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 1:30 AM UTC

rsweeney21 wrote: post #2

I support this, but not enough to give my name and email to Mozilla to sign a petition. Am I being paranoid?

Almost certainly, unless you trust Mozilla less than Twitter and LinkedIn, both of which you've trusted with your name and presumably email.

Mozilla seems to be one of the least un-trustworthy tech companies, at least in my opinion I'm honestly surprising to me that someone who's been in this scene so much longer than myself would ask this question about Mozilla.

Re: Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default

#26

Post by w0land » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 2:51 AM UTC

worg wrote: post #11

Dear Mozilla: stop sending to google a unique ID for my browser on first launch edit: grammar

Genuinely worried, can you explain more? How does it work? HTTP headers i don't think as i check them for work often. I'm all ears, thanks.

Re: Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default

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Post by worg » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 5:31 AM UTC

w0land wrote: post #26

worg wrote: post #11

Dear Mozilla: stop sending to google a unique ID for my browser on first launch edit: grammar

Genuinely worried, can you explain more? How does it work? HTTP headers i don't think as i check them for work often. I'm all ears, thanks.

This[0] thread should be enlightening. Also discussed here[1]

[0]: https://mobile.twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/1165858896...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20794937

Re: Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default

#28

Post by mthoms » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 5:39 AM UTC

generalpass wrote: post #23

> You might have seen a Facebook ‘like’ button on websites outside of Facebook. Why not address this to webmasters?

Because it exists to raise awareness about FB's practices among the general public.

Re: Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default

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Post by jerome-jh » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 12:24 PM UTC

Log on Google/Facebook/whatever in a private tab, surf in a normal window (with an adblocker): problem solved.

Alternative: log on in Chrome, surf with Firefox or the other way around.

Re: Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default

#30

Post by generalpass » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 8:05 PM UTC

mthoms wrote: post #28

generalpass wrote: post #23

> You might have seen a Facebook ‘like’ button on websites outside of Facebook. Why not address this to webmasters?

Because it exists to raise awareness about FB's practices among the general public.

Why not raise awareness about webmaster practices among the general public?