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Clicking on the link shown on the website assigns a unique ID to your version of Firefox downloaded from the playstore. Every user gets a unique ID. This ID is sent back to 'Adjust' when you install the app. So much for unfcking the internet. Hypocrisy everywhere.
Add anti-fingerprinting tech to the core browser or at least verify one of the existing add-ons that do it.
Add PGP/GPG to the core browser.
Look into sandboxing. Maybe pick up maintenance of Sanboxie.
Is it too much to ask for a tech company to just focus on their product and not delve into social advocacy? Edit: The Unfck the Internet project proclaims to be all about user privacy, but it promotes an extension to report political ads and an extension to report recommended YouTube videos (with the goal of not exposing people certain content). That is why I see this as social advocacy because it's clearly got polit…
Yeah, and Firefox is a corporation that gets hundreds of millions of dollars a year from Google, whose CEO gets paid about $2 million a year.
I won't get into their politics, because frankly they shouldn't matter, but please actually start working on your browser, Mozilla. Ungoogled Chromium is eating your lunch.
Clicking on the link shown on the website assigns a unique ID to your version of Firefox downloaded from the playstore. Every user gets a unique ID. This ID is sent back to 'Adjust' when you install the app. So much for unfcking the internet. Hypocrisy everywhere.
Anonymous tracking is fine with them, I'd presume, and totally seems to be in line with Mozilla's stance, too, one would think. It isn't like their flagship product, Firefox, is free of all telemetry.
Anonymous tracking is already part of the URL. The ?utm_source=unfck part of the URL helps Mozilla know how many people installed Firefox from that link.
Clicking on the link shown on the website assigns a unique ID to your version of Firefox downloaded from the playstore. Every user gets a unique ID. This ID is sent back to 'Adjust' when you install the app. So much for unfcking the internet. Hypocrisy everywhere.
Can you expand on this? On desktop I don't see anything being stored anywhere on this site, but I'm likely missing something.
It is not linked directly to the play store. it is run through a tracking company first, which then assigns a unique ID to your installation for knowing what caused users to install firefox. The ID is present in the URL.
Click the link once more to get another ID assigned to you.
Then when you open the app, The ID is sent back to the company along with a list of specific apps installed on your Android.
Things Mozilla could do right now that would greatly improve our security and privacy: Add anti-fingerprinting tech to the core browser or at least verify one of the existing add-ons that do it. Add PGP/GPG to the core browser. Look into sandboxing. Maybe pick up maintenance of Sanboxie.
privacy.resistFingerprinting to 'true' in about:config
It is not perfect, of course, but helps a lot. Expect some sites to break.
Is it too much to ask for a tech company to just focus on their product and not delve into social advocacy? Edit: The Unfck the Internet project proclaims to be all about user privacy, but it promotes an extension to report political ads and an extension to report recommended YouTube videos (with the goal of not exposing people certain content). That is why I see this as social advocacy because it's clearly got polit…
Is it too much to ask for a tech company to just focus on their product and not delve into social advocacy? Edit: The Unfck the Internet project proclaims to be all about user privacy, but it promotes an extension to report political ads and an extension to report recommended YouTube videos (with the goal of not exposing people certain content). That is why I see this as social advocacy because it's clearly got polit…
I don't understand this stance to be honest. Do you also think that Apple's focus on privacy is wrong? Why would a company building a web browser not be concerned about the state of the web, the privacy of it's users, etc? These things seem to be directly related to their product.
Is it too much to ask for a tech company to just focus on their product and not delve into social advocacy? Edit: The Unfck the Internet project proclaims to be all about user privacy, but it promotes an extension to report political ads and an extension to report recommended YouTube videos (with the goal of not exposing people certain content). That is why I see this as social advocacy because it's clearly got polit…