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Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

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Post by kohtatsu »

htwyford wrote: post #148
formerly_proven wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

DNSCloak is also a thing https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/dnscloak-secure-dns-client/id1...

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Post by sharps1 »

colordrops wrote: post #52

Off topic, but every time I see an article like this I load up Firefox and try it out to see how it has progressed. I inevitably stop using it, and this time I decided to introspect and see why. It turns out that it's mouse wheel scrolling doesn't feel as snappy as other browsers, and for some reason it bothers me a lot. I'm going to try changing the scroll wheel settings and see if I can stick with it.

You can make the behavior more like other browsers by setting (in about:config)

  general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.enabled
to true (by double-clicking).

EDIT: Formatting.

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Post by sequoia »

atombender wrote: post #26

I'm a fan of ETP, except it breaks a lot of sites that use embeds. For example, sites that use Twitter or Instagram [1] embeds won't show the embeds. And there's no way, as far as I can tell, to whitelist those. The only solution is to whitelist the sites that have embeds, but that ends up enabling all the tracking and stuff you don't want. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1446243

Note to website/blog authors: please don't include twitter embeds in articles as the only way to read/view/hear the content!!

- I use an ebook reader (Kobo) with Pocket to read saved articles and it can't load the embeds

- I listen to articles with the screen reading feature on iOS and when it goes over embedded tweets it's a nightmare

Many articles are nonsensical when you cut out the twitter embed that added key context or information to the article. Consider copy/pasting the text into the article & then linking to the tweet.

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Post by btrask »

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-you-use-leanplum...

> What data is collected and sent to the Leanplum backend?

> Leanplum tracks events such as when a user loads bookmarks, opens a new tab, opens a Pocket trending story, clears data, saves a password and login, takes a screenshot, downloads media, interacts with a search URL or signs in to a Firefox Account.

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Post by llacb47 »

ffpip wrote: post #182
ubercow13 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That will probably break google maps and many other things. Just add this:

    google.*##+js(set, rwt, noopFunc)

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Post by rladd »

typon wrote: post #130

My friend who works in an adtech company: "Protip: Use Firefox instead of Chrome. We get very little data from Firefox users"

Latest Firefox still doesn't protect against browser fingerprinting. This from the EFF Panopticlick:

  Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 303,579 tested in the past 45 days.
  Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 18.21 bits of identifying information.

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Post by muststopmyths »

tdhz77 wrote: post #23

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.

I recently gave up on firefox after trying for years to use it for my more sensitive browsing (email, bank, investments, etc.) where I could not run javascript blockers.

3 big problems (and many minor little things that i hit every day but haven't bothered to record)

- composing email in gmail is horrible. unexplained bursts of lag where it hangs for several seconds and may or may not lose anything I typed in that interval. This one is recent as of the past couple of months.

- outlook email just not updating or refreshing until I restart the browser.

- lagginess in most if not all input boxes (could be related to the first problem above).

- every few updates it will lose all my containers and I have to make them from scratch.

It may be something these sites are doing wrong, but I don't have the patience any more. Chrome works, Edgemium works, so I switched.

still use firefox for facebook container, but that's about it.

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Post by ACow_Adonis »

kelnos wrote: post #177
godelski wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But is it a software company? I can understand the disagreement, but with the state of things it is just atrocious. I'd be fine if things weren't so invasive and were clearly ads. Pop ups, pop unders, dark patterns to cause clicks, flashy images on text pages, malware injection, 10x page load times, etc are all reasons why I personally can't stand it. It just feels like they are trying to trick me into seeing their p…

> I don't think most people minds ads Is that true? I despise ads and the entire advertising industry. I would wear special glasses that would block billboards from my vision if they existed. I pay extra for the ad-free version of Hulu. When I'm at someone's house and they have cable and the TV is on, I find ad breaks incredibly jarring. Am I just an extreme outlier? It would make me sad for humanity if that was the…

I think it's more that they've been conditioned to accept ads.

if you spend a significant time travelling through rather diverse countries, one of the first thing that hits you is different laws and norms around what can be advertised and where. moving through dictatorships and seeing elections is eye opening in its "weirdness". as a non American, visiting America and seeing laws, flags, billboards and medicine advertising is weird.

anyway, my point is, if you haven't been brought up with it, you see it for what it is, and normal becomes what you experience every day. one you spend a few years ad free, it's incredibly hard to go back, it's really jarring, and you see advertising the same way you see plastered images of the dictator in absolutely random locations when you visit other countries (and there's a good reason for that, because they're fundamentally the same thing).

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Post by [deleted] »

ffpip wrote: post #184
sleavey wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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Post by ric2b »

tome wrote: post #109
mancerayder wrote: post #104

I'm happy to see stuff like this. I'd be even happier if the tricks to get video to play were somehow canceled. I have adblocker and video blockers, but somehow, news sites have a video that plays. If I scroll off the page, the video pops out into the lower right hand of the page and resumes playing, even if the big version of the video at the top of the page was stopped /paused (which it is by default), and it needs…

Isn't the small video in the corner a feature actually implemented in Firefox itself (picture-in-picture) and nothing to do with the web page? If so then that seems doubly bad!

No, the Firefox PiP requires you to click a blue icon, it doesn't activate automatically when you scroll off the video.
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