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Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

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Firefox mobile also won't let me into about:config. So I guess that's the end. Opera? Other recommendations?

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread:

Go to: chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml then enable about:config after that dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled can be set to false.

Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

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Firefox mobile also won't let me into about:config. So I guess that's the end. Opera? Other recommendations?

Elinks via Termux? /jk For those that don't know, Elinks is a text only terminal browser.

Lol, nobody wants that.

Recommend Mull or something else sensible.

Edit: Whoopsy, oversaw your /jk

Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A practice (pay or accept cookies) which was actually ruled in breach with GDPR but many German sites seem to do this somehow. Our Data Protection Agencies ruled it okay. There was a recent court case that called it into question again, so we’ll see how things develop. FWIW, my normal blockers manage to block the heise.de pay-or-track banner, different from, e.g. golem.

what data protection agencies?

I used the wrong word, it’s authorities. The German word is "Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörde"

Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

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I think this line is very important: > First, in the absence of alternatives, there are enormous economic incentives for advertisers to try to bypass these countermeasures, leading to a perpetual arms race that we may not win. It's very likely that this arms race will lead to DRM in web publications and video feeds (which Google is already experimenting with).

DRM on a website = no search engine can scan the website = no users = the DRM website dies.

google is the owner of the DRM verification system, they add exception for google robots, website only appears on google, kills other search engines in the process

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this line is very important: > First, in the absence of alternatives, there are enormous economic incentives for advertisers to try to bypass these countermeasures, leading to a perpetual arms race that we may not win. It's very likely that this arms race will lead to DRM in web publications and video feeds (which Google is already experimenting with).

DRM on a website = no search engine can scan the website = no users = the DRM website dies.

If the DRM is coming from Google, I'm sure they'll take that into consideration when designing it. Feels ripe for an anti-trust lawsuit, but IANAL so who knows.

Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

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Yeah on desktop. On mobile it's a lot harder. It's still turned on and you have to use a workaround to enable about: config because they don't bother to make this option visible in settings.

On mobile you probably want to try Fennec and/or Mull, both Firefox forks, compatible with FF addons and available on F-Droid.

As of June Fennec is now under Mozilla?

Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

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So where can I donate to Ladybird browser development? Before anyone tries to respond with it. It is https://donorbox.org/ladybird

Why Ladybird? Why not Servo?

I appreciate Ladybird's initiative. But if they work with Servo, Ladybird can build the browser and Servo can focus on the engine. Also we can avoid C++ nightmare. Everybody wins.
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