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From the CEO's comments on reddit ( https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_abo... ): > we support people configuring their browser however they choose I rate this one as half true. If you leave firefox for a while and come back, it displays a bar with text like "Would you like to refresh your experience?" The first time I clicked that, it uninstalled my adblock extension. Not making that mistake aga…
https://support.mozilla.org/no/kb/privacy-preserving-attribu... explains what the setting is about, the important bit being: > 3. Firefox creates a report based on what the website asks, but > does not give the result to the website. Instead, Firefox encrypts > the report and anonymously submits it using the Distributed > Aggregation Protocol (DAP) to an “aggregation service”. > 4. Your results are combined with many…
`dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled` already was false. If you're having to set it manually in `about:config`, you're likely missing something bigger in `about:preferences#privacy`.
Can this be also disabled on Android?
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> What about HN? The same HN that is heavily moderated by a paid employee and paid for by a multi-billion dollars net worth company called YCombinator?
Y Combinator will continue to exist in a post-attention-economy world. They have proven themselves to be quite adaptable.
That's not the question. Hacker News was used as an example of an old-school site that worked without monetisation. Which is clearly not the case.
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Google likely pays them to disable about:config on Android or implies they won't pay them as much for default search and they read the tea leaves. https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/firefox-for-android-abo... It only works on the more insecure nightly version of firefox.
I just checked this config value on my Firefox Nightly and it's already preset to false. Interesting.
That's what I suspect for my own setting anyway.
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Most people still seem to watch Hollywood quality movies so I don't know if your taste is very representative.
High sales != quality. Maybe high sales ~= lowest common denominator?
So if we were to move to a world where high quality productions were not feasible anymore for some reason or another then by definition most people would find this to be a problem.
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> It was free before the insane amount of advertising. It was better before the insane amount of advertising.
> It was better before the insane amount of advertising. There was anything on it really before that. Wikipedia didn't start until 2001 and there were already pop-ups and banner ads everywhere. t was better before the insane amount of advertising. I seem to recall GeoCities having ads everywhere.
Ditch Mozilla. Full stop. They are hand-in-hand with Google - Bought and paid for.