What if cookies were opt in? E.g. blocked by default everywhere unless you decide to allow them, same as access to the webcam for example.
Side benefit: It helps a ton with testing changes instead of clearing everything and starting over!
Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
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Even less data if you use uBlock Origin and possibly uMatrix (which is very high maintenance, but also reveals the utter insanity of the web). Without an adblocker the internet is such a slow heap of trash that I'd never go back to not using one. This is also one of the main reasons I use my iPhone so little, since it doesn't really have any way to adblock.
Big fan of NextDNS -- since I installed it on my iPhone, no ads. At all.
Yes, I switched to it fairly wholesale (1) when the paying plan became available. It is eye opening what all my devices look up in the course of their operation.
1: apps on my Windows, Android, iOS devices along with specifying it as the default nameserver in my routers.
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Hi! We at Mozilla certainly don't see that! I'm at 815 tabs in this window alone and switching is instantaneous. Did you happen to file a bug report about this atypical behavior?
Hey Mozilla Employee, Could you guys please add a feature where any link opened from within a container opens in the same container category? (Like if i'm in Personal, I stay in Personal unless I explictly opt-out)? It's such a pain to constantly right-click and open tabs. Thanks :)
Surprisingly, that is the default behavior for me: if I click a link in the reddit container for e.g., it opens a new reddit container tab with the link.
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It’s the free market working as intended - if most people cared, the first site to stop doing auto playing videos would get more traffic and other sites would follow. As of right now, the benefit of auto playing videos outweighs the cost of pissing off the few users who care.
The free market is the best algorithm for hill-climbing a society into feudalism, one A/B test at a time.
Can you expand on this? I'm curious what you mean.
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#205I want to switch to Firefox, but of all things, its tab management is keeping me away. On my last try, I gave up after five minutes because I couldn't see all my open tabs at once (had to scroll). Does anyone know of an extension or setting I can use to force Chrome-like tab behavior, where all tabs are shown at once regardless of how small they become?
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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.
There is Metastream (https://getmetastream.com/), but it doesn't seem as easy to use.
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Even less data if you use uBlock Origin and possibly uMatrix (which is very high maintenance, but also reveals the utter insanity of the web). Without an adblocker the internet is such a slow heap of trash that I'd never go back to not using one. This is also one of the main reasons I use my iPhone so little, since it doesn't really have any way to adblock.
> This is also one of the main reasons I use my iPhone so little, since it doesn't really have any way to adblock. You can block ads in Safari iOS with a Content Blocker. 1Blocker is pretty robust: https://1blocker.com/ Firefox for iOS also has Tracking Protection built in, which blocks most ads.
- Content blockers are opt-in, not opt-out.
- ios does not let you see the traffic
- ios diverts all traffic anyway, and allows apps on the phone to have visibility into web traffic (deep linking)
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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?
All addon users/stats are public on addons.mozilla.org.
So number of (uBO + ABP users)/ Firefox users is probably 33%. So that might be where it is coming from
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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?
Mozilla publish their telemetry data on it: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/usage-behavior
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> very high maintenance Reading this, I was actually surprised to find that for some reason or other this has gotten a lot better for me during the 2+ years I've been using uMatrix. At first it's rather annoying to enable CDNs and stuff for the sites you frequent, but mostly I've started noticing that the sites that break for basically no good reason are the ones that a sane person probably shouldn't visit anyway. So…
I love uMatrix. It removes all annoyances like customer support popups, chat bots, basically anything other than the main domain. It is high maintainance, only if you visit many new sites every day. For a single site/domain, set it once and go. There are built in 'recipes' allowing YT embeds, twitter embeds, google capthas if a site wants it. Once you globally whitelist CDN's (cloudflare and others), it's enough. For…
What are these recipes? Video embeds and captchas are my biggest headaches with it now.