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Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

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Re: Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

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I keep encouraging people to use Firefox over the others. My efforts keep failing. Mozilla’s focus on privacy is important and should be to others. People have been burned in the past and are willing to give up privacy for something that just works. The irony.

Do people think Firefox doesn't work? I've noticed zero difference between using Firefox and Chrome and I've used both daily for five years or so.

Chrome offers this quiet magical feature called ‘tab to search’, Firefox allows you to make custom search key shortcuts but you need to make each of them. It’s just not as easy to use and is a killer feature that’s very fast/useful and missed for anyone who uses it and tries to switch away to Firefox.

It’s the only thing that keeps pulling me back to Chrome, as well as many others I’ve seen discuss it in forums over the years.

There’s no Firefox extension to add it and as Firefox users don’t have it they don’t miss it.

Really, sort this, you’ll quietly unlock a bunch more switches.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1177556

Re: Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

#182

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Those fixes still have to resolve the url. The best fix is using duck.com and getting off Google search.

Isn't is possible to resolve the URL locally? It looks like it's just part of the redirect URL in the example given above

If you use uBlock Origin , go to My Filters and add this

https://pastebin.com/M6Jah286

Re: Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

#183
post #55

> Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0; blocking redirect trackers by default Isnt that what is used with Google Search? For example if you go here: https://www.google.com/search?q=sunday the first result appears to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday but its really: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

Go to uBlock Origin and add these to My Filters

https://pastebin.com/M6Jah286

Re: Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

#184
post #55

> Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0; blocking redirect trackers by default Isnt that what is used with Google Search? For example if you go here: https://www.google.com/search?q=sunday the first result appears to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday but its really: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

I find this annoying and noticed this change a year or so ago. Google used to just give you the (as far as I could tell) unadulterated link. In fact, at the time I wondered how/if Google were actually able to track how many people clicked the top link in the results, because it seemed to be the real URL and stayed real even when clicked. I figured they either had so much faith in PageRank that they didn't need to mon…

If you use uBlock Origin, add these (some reddit user suggested it, and it works)

https://pastebin.com/M6Jah286

Re: Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

#185
Add those add-ons:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvas-finger...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webgl-fingerp...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/font-fingerpr...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/audioctx-fing...

I would really love to have more addins like this, doing one thing and doing it good. They will kill fingerprinting and as a proof, I was downvoted the next moment i posted the links.

Re: Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

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post #180

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Do people think Firefox doesn't work? I've noticed zero difference between using Firefox and Chrome and I've used both daily for five years or so.

NetflixParty is the only extension that I actually use that isn't on Firefox. I wish someone made a clone. I wonder if there's something technical preventing that from happening.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/netflix-party...

Re: Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

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post #180

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NetflixParty is the only extension that I actually use that isn't on Firefox. I wish someone made a clone. I wonder if there's something technical preventing that from happening.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/netflix-party...

how the hell didnt i find this before...

Re: Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

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> fortunately at some places multiple developers used uBlock so it wasn't as hard as making the case alone. Is adblocking not common? Every tech literate person I know uses an ad blocker. I'd say about 30-40% of millennials I know use them, most using ADB or uBlock Origin. Every time I see someone using a browser with ads I forget what a nightmare the internet is.

Only 30% of FF users have any add-ons at all. Only about 1/3 of those have adblock plus or unlock origin.

Do you have a source for this? Is it for a specific website?

Re: Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

#189
post #178

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Indeed am seeing more and more sites that somehow get their videos to autoplay even though I have that explicitly disabled in Firefox settings. I thought user agents had ultimate control over 'mere bytes' sent over the wire but somehow these sites manage to trick the browser and override user preferences.

If a tag is attached to the Video, Firefox stops it. Sites are loading videos in frames (looking at you Reddit) and in GIFs (news sites)

Wouldn't the frame also be a valid HTML page, with a tag? Perhaps I'm mistaken about how things are working these days, so I'd appreciate some learnin'.

Re: Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

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Im unable to book flights with local airlines via firefox because the payment popup gets blocked with no warning. Sure, I can figure out whats going on and use a different browser, but it's terrible UX.

Not even the tiny little box in the right side of the address bar that says a popup was blocked? I've seen blocked pop-ups there before, but never heard of or seen Firefox block a pop-up with absolutely no feedback.

Might be a dhtml (Div) popup, dynamically generated. Those are harder to block.
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