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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
Don't hold your breath. It takes ages to develop a browser that's as fast as Firefox. CSS and JS are no joke.
Or, if one dreams for a moment, if slower becomes the norm, web apps will have to become less complicated. Fast seems to just enable more and more ad tech
This works by adding noise. Can't an attacker bypass it by boosting the signal? Assuming the attacker can create sybil advertisers/browsers, this should be totally doable: 1. Define some baseline set of M impressions with various ad identifiers and from various sybil advertisers. 2. For each target user, define some set of M marker impressions, also with various ad identifiers and from various and sybil advertisers.…
Might be worth opening an issue if you believe there's merit to the attack?
If 1% of regular Firefox users just donated the equivalent of 10USD per year to mozilla, they would not have the need to find ...eyebrow-raising... ways to earn money.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It’s clear in retrospect that we should have communicated more on this one What isn’t clear, in retrospect or otherwise, is why companies/apps/services need to keep learning this lesson. The user outcry was utterly predictable from even before the first web article was out. The fact that no one with decision power at Mozilla saw it coming is worrying: either they have zero understanding of people’s concerns for pri…
Who's to say this "my bad, we'll do better next time" isn't part of the playbook?
The CTO of Mozilla just posted on /r/firefox about this: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_abo...
Is it just me that sometimes get the feeling that when companies have to explain them selves with this amoubt of text, they actually know that they are doing something wrong but are trying to cover it up by these long and unnecessary explanations?
And there goes my trust in Firefox out the window... Safari seems to be the only decent, privacy-focused browser left on the market. Until the Ladybird arrives.
Safari has Private Click Measurement: https://webkit.org/blog/11529/introducing-private-click-meas...
And AFAICT, Mozilla's implementation is technically superior?
If 1% of regular Firefox users just donated the equivalent of 10USD per year to mozilla, they would not have the need to find ...eyebrow-raising... ways to earn money.
On the other hand, people would be more inclined to donate money if they could trust Mozilla to value the privacy of their users, which is one of the biggest reasons people choose FF in the first place.
The CTO of Mozilla just posted on /r/firefox about this: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_abo...
> It’s clear in retrospect that we should have communicated more on this one What isn’t clear, in retrospect or otherwise, is why companies/apps/services need to keep learning this lesson. The user outcry was utterly predictable from even before the first web article was out. The fact that no one with decision power at Mozilla saw it coming is worrying: either they have zero understanding of people’s concerns for pri…
The CTO of Mozilla just posted on /r/firefox about this: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_abo...
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).
This has happened before. Remember the critique against Encrypted Media Extensions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_Media_Extensions): Oh no, DRM in the browser! But remember that web video used to require Adobe Flash for the longest time, and even after a decade of HTML5 video, sites were still clinging onto Adobe Flash (and later also Microsoft Silverlight) for what turned out to be DRM purposes. At the time, these plagued proprietary blobs were not going anywhere. Except, after EME had widely supplanted this last holdout usecase, they were quietly allowed to die. The result is that we have much smaller-scoped proprietary blobs in the form of content delivery modules with a lot fewer bugs and portability issues.