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Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

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Re: Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

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Post by chippy »

"To enable Tracking Protection in Firefox 35 and later, visit about:config and set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true"

Edits -

This quote from the article is interesting, especially considering Google the worlds biggest advertising industry company also has a browser.

"That Firefox is first and foremost a user-agent, not an industry-agent"

Re: Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

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Post by throwaway425 »

alexgrist wrote: post #3
throwaway425 wrote: post #2

I justed visited https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ and browsed the source, and they still have the Google Analytics tracking crap on their website. Strange for a company that claims to be "committed to your privacy."

This again..

It's a valid objection. GA at this point is on most websites you visit. The data is forwarded to Google where it's processed and stored forever. GA is one of the biggest threats to privacy on the web, and any company claiming to care about your privacy should not be using it.

Re: Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

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Post by callahad »

throwaway425 wrote: post #2

I justed visited https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ and browsed the source, and they still have the Google Analytics tracking crap on their website. Strange for a company that claims to be "committed to your privacy."

Mozilla has an enterprise agreement with Google that limits what data is collected through GA and how it can be used. Quote:

    Our Google Analytics premium account is set to opt-out on all of 3rd party
    uses of the data and the only people who have access to the anonymous
    aggregated data is Mozilla Employees. This is not the normal Google
    Analytics setup that most people use on other websites.

    Also, to increase privacy we flipped the anonymize flag in the Google
    Analytics request [...] and don't do any cross-domain cookies within Google
    Analytics.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1122305#c8

Re: Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

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Post by Karunamon »

throwaway425 wrote: post #6
alexgrist wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This again..

It's a valid objection. GA at this point is on most websites you visit. The data is forwarded to Google where it's processed and stored forever. GA is one of the biggest threats to privacy on the web, and any company claiming to care about your privacy should not be using it.

I find it very, very hard to get outraged over analytics code on a web browser site. And as previously mentioned every time someone brings up this idiotic factoid, Mozilla's use of GA isn't exactly standard.

Re: Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

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Post by chippy »

stockholmsin wrote: post #9

How does this compare to something like Privacy Badger[1]? I haven't done any benchmarking, but if it causes similar slowdowns, it isn't bothersome and the benefits are definitely worth it. [1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

I'd also like a comparison with ublock and/or ghostery. It appears that this becomes enabled after the blocking plugins.
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