Use uBlock Origin, Multi Account Containers, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes and CookieAutoDelete with Firefox. Make sure you aggressively clear cache, cookies, etc., periodically (with CookieAutoDelete). You’ll probably load the web servers more and also add more traffic on your network, but it will help protect your privacy since most websites don’t care about that. When websites are user hostile, you have to take protective measures yourself.
Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's good when a company does it because they create value in the economy. It's only bad when a person does it because no value is created.
don't know if you're sarcastic. However, just because a company makes money, doesn't mean value is created. Like when you win in poker against someone, you're making money but not creating value.
I mostly agree with your point, but it has to be said that poker players are creating entertainment value for each other. Even if the cash portion of the game is zero or even negative sum.
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#94Per-site caching negates the principal selling point of centrally-hosted JS and resources, including fonts. The convenience remains, but all speed-related perks (due to the resources being reused from earlier visits to unrelated sites) are no more... which is actually great, because it reduces the value that unscrupulous free CDN providers can derive from their "properties". It also means that I can remove fonts.goog…
LocalCDN is an extension I would recommend, both for privacy and performance reasons. https://www.localcdn.org/
Decentraleyes is what I use. I assume they're similar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...
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#95These advertising networks are destroying web performance. Most of these "Supercookies" are optimizations to improve performance. By abusing them, advertisers have turned what should be a great performance tool into a liability. I know FF suggests this won't significantly affect most websites performance, but web advertising and trackers are already responsible for a huge chunk of performance issues already. Of cours…
This is akin to the whole class of CPU vulnerabilities we've seen (Spectre/Meltdown/CacheOut/...) where performance optimizations are at odds with security.
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#96is it just me or more people switching to Firefox these days?
On the desktop there has been minor movement as percentage of the whole market, but up 9% on their own share.
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...
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#97Any opinions on the likelihood of upcoming changes to first party cookies?
Ex: www.example.com and api.example.com may both access cookies for example.com.
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#98Are there any plans for complete partitioning? I'd like to see a point where browsing on two different websites are treated as a completely different user. Embeds, cookies, cookies in embeds, etc.
That's probably Firefox's own Firefox Multi-Account Containers[0]. Groups caches/cookies into designated categories for each tab (personal, work, shopping, etc.), with smart recognition for assigned sites. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
Someone should do a study on the performance impacts of using something like this on all sites for various kinds of "typical" web browsing profiles. I'm honestly guessing a lot of the losses would be in the noise for me personally.
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#99Use uBlock Origin, Multi Account Containers, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes and CookieAutoDelete with Firefox. Make sure you aggressively clear cache, cookies, etc., periodically (with CookieAutoDelete). You’ll probably load the web servers more and also add more traffic on your network, but it will help protect your privacy since most websites don’t care about that. When websites are user hostile, you have to take pr…
Why not use Brave? It has all of this, with Fingerprint protection turned on by default.
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#100Twitter uses these type of cookies. They even use cookies that do not contain any reference to the twitter domain. It is how they track people who have been suspended on the platform
Will switch to firefox because of this, absolutely disgusting.
Safari, Chrome, and Edge already partitioned the HTTP Cache by site; Firefox was the last major browser not to. It's great that Firefox is doing this, but it's not a differentiator.