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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 pr…
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 pr…
Agree, but substituting multi-account containers with temporary containers https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
I'm still trying to imagine the way one exploits a lack of partitioning in the DNS cache... 1. It seems like client web pages cannot directly view the DNS information for a given domain name. So I would think embedding identifying information in something like a CNAME or TXT record directly wouldn't work. 2. I suppose a tracker could try to create unique records for a given domain name and then use request/responses…
"I'm still trying to imagine the way one exploits a lack of partitioning in the DNS cache." There's a PDF here: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/nd... Basically timing based. See https://www.audero.it/demo/resource-timing-api-demo.html for a demo of what's available in the browser's navigation and resource timing API. For example, I get this on a cached reload: domainLookupStart: 52.090000128…
Are 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.
I don't recall the last time I had to temporarily disable it to allow something to work.
These 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…
I run a network ad-block dns (pihole) and consistently 25-33% of all my network traffic is blocked as ads. It's much more than I ever imagined. Now I'm used to a different internet, when I'm using internet off the network it's like WTF is this?
Twitter 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
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I switched in late 2017 when they released quantum or neutrino or whatever they called it, a huge performance release. As a backend dev and security focused eng I have little reason to test drive changes in all browsers. FF has been smooth and stable for me across desktop OSs. Having no reason to alternate between that and Chrome, I’ve been confused by people saying it’s slow. It’s been, to my memory, a flawless expe…
Just interact with the Facebook chat in Chrome and FF, and you'll see that FF is significantly slower. That being said I use 90% FF, 9% safari and 0.999...% Chrome, because FF handling of tabs/containers/add-ons offers superior UX despite the performance annoyances. IMO, obviously.
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Eh, Google was first to implement this: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/10/http-cache... .
So? Mozilla should still catch up (if/where needed) and surpass Google on all privacy fronts. The goal should be that Google can't track Firefox users in default configuration - rest assured, this will never happen with Chrome/Chromium/Edge, and probably not with any other Chrome-base browser either.
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We're trying to build an ad network that doesn't track users: https://www.ethicalads.io/ We talked a little bit about how these ads still work, even without tracking you. You might be losing 10-15% of revenue, but if you never had that revenue to start with, you don't miss it: https://www.ethicalads.io/blog/2018/04/ethical-advertising-w... I think the real secret is just to not become dependent on the additive revenu…
I totally read it as ethical lads.
These 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…
We're trying to build an ad network that doesn't track users: https://www.ethicalads.io/ We talked a little bit about how these ads still work, even without tracking you. You might be losing 10-15% of revenue, but if you never had that revenue to start with, you don't miss it: https://www.ethicalads.io/blog/2018/04/ethical-advertising-w... I think the real secret is just to not become dependent on the additive revenu…