For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
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Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
#2Says the site that only offers one big button "accept" to its cookies :( :( There's no "Nope".
Edit: Weird, some people seem to have received more options than me. For me there was just one option to accept (Zustimmen) and nothing else. Everything was in German but I read German anyway. I was on mobile though, perhaps this is why? I can't see it again because I already pressed it.
A practice (pay or accept cookies) which was actually ruled in breach with GDPR but many German sites seem to do this somehow.
I agree with the criticism on Firefox but this is very hypocritical. Heise used to be a good company. I even used to subscribe to C'T and iX.
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#4So how do we turn it off?
Found it. Go to settings, type privacy into the search box. The last item under "Firefox Data Collection and Use" is a check box labelled "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement".
It was already unchecked on mine when I looked just now.
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#5Already discussed quite a few times:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954535
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40966312
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40952330
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40971247
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40965161
...and probably a few I missed.
Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
#6Says the site that only offers one big button "accept" to its cookies :( :( There's no "Nope". Edit: Weird, some people seem to have received more options than me. For me there was just one option to accept (Zustimmen) and nothing else. Everything was in German but I read German anyway. I was on mobile though, perhaps this is why? I can't see it again because I already pressed it. A practice (pay or accept cookies) w…
> 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.
Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
#7Says the site that only offers one big button "accept" to its cookies :( :( There's no "Nope". Edit: Weird, some people seem to have received more options than me. For me there was just one option to accept (Zustimmen) and nothing else. Everything was in German but I read German anyway. I was on mobile though, perhaps this is why? I can't see it again because I already pressed it. A practice (pay or accept cookies) w…
These dark patterns will prevail. However, I honestly expect their reasoning to be "every single user reading heise.de should have a cookie banner blocking enabled in their Ad Blocker". Also, I think you can accept it for free when you click "Einstellungen", this is not golem.de.
Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
#8Says the site that only offers one big button "accept" to its cookies :( :( There's no "Nope". Edit: Weird, some people seem to have received more options than me. For me there was just one option to accept (Zustimmen) and nothing else. Everything was in German but I read German anyway. I was on mobile though, perhaps this is why? I can't see it again because I already pressed it. A practice (pay or accept cookies) w…
These dark patterns will prevail. However, I honestly expect their reasoning to be "every single user reading heise.de should have a cookie banner blocking enabled in their Ad Blocker". Also, I think you can accept it for free when you click "Einstellungen", this is not golem.de.
> Also, I think you can accept it for free when you click "Einstellungen"
No, this part is mandatory:
> Datenverarbeitungen von Werbeanbietern einschl. personalisierter Werbung mit Profilbildung [Zustimmung erforderlich für kostenfreie Nutzung]
Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
#9So how do we turn it off? Found it. Go to settings, type privacy into the search box. The last item under "Firefox Data Collection and Use" is a check box labelled "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement". It was already unchecked on mine when I looked just now.
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.
Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
#10Says the site that only offers one big button "accept" to its cookies :( :( There's no "Nope". Edit: Weird, some people seem to have received more options than me. For me there was just one option to accept (Zustimmen) and nothing else. Everything was in German but I read German anyway. I was on mobile though, perhaps this is why? I can't see it again because I already pressed it. A practice (pay or accept cookies) w…
These dark patterns will prevail. However, I honestly expect their reasoning to be "every single user reading heise.de should have a cookie banner blocking enabled in their Ad Blocker". Also, I think you can accept it for free when you click "Einstellungen", this is not golem.de.
i stopped reading golem because of this. what a shit