curl | sh for THIS? Riiight, let's give that website permission to execute arbitrary code on your computer just to change a single FF preference? Really????
Make Firefox Private Again
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#22Can this be also disabled on Android?
Sure, about:config works there as well. Interestingly, it was already disabled on my phone, but enabled on desktop.
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.
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#23wasn't aware that 'anonym' existed. I don't care if PII is stripped or not. the answer to 'helping advertisers' or anything with advertisement metrics in any fashion is always 'No.' - training things so that there's better data on how to best manipulate our psyche / give people data to psychologically manipulate us in to buying/doing things is a hard 'No.' > Asked whether Mozilla has any concerns that its user base,…
> No, the internet being free and open is what allows advertisers to exploit us. The internet is neither free, nor open. I'm paying for it and there are all the geo-blocked and walled content. I'm grateful for the parts that are accessible at least (without sucking my private data dry). I don't mind advertising, but it should be a function of what I'm currently watching/listening instead of myself. I pay for F1TV and…
And free beer isn't free because you still need to pay for gas to haul it home?
That certain parts are locked off also doesn't make the internet as a whole not open.
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#24A bash script to set a config value…? I’ve been blocking ads in Firefox since you used CSS to do it [0] but let’s face it, advertising isn’t going away. Advertising is annoying, but tracking is evil and I hope initiatives like this can pave the way to having ads while not compromising user privacy. I’ll still block them, though. [0] https://www.gozer.org/mozilla/ad_blocking/css/ad_blocking.cs... (love it that site is…
> Advertising is annoying, but tracking is evil and I hope initiatives like this can pave the way to having ads while not compromising user privacy.
This is wishful thinking. As long as ads exists they are going to grab as much information about you as possible. All this does is give them additional information to add to whatever they are already doing.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, about:config works there as well. Interestingly, it was already disabled on my phone, but enabled on desktop.
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.
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#26Really sad to see Firefox’s direction but also not sure how they should be funded to avoid these things. I’m also not sure that the web can be made into something different unless web standards aren’t freed of influence by giants like Google
> not sure how they should be funded to avoid these things
From donations and government grants. You know, like proper non-profits that aren't trying to LARP as a SV unicorn.
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#27wasn't aware that 'anonym' existed. I don't care if PII is stripped or not. the answer to 'helping advertisers' or anything with advertisement metrics in any fashion is always 'No.' - training things so that there's better data on how to best manipulate our psyche / give people data to psychologically manipulate us in to buying/doing things is a hard 'No.' > Asked whether Mozilla has any concerns that its user base,…
I don't wholly disagree, but it's always a tad ironic to read "money is ruining the free/open internet" discussion on a free forum powered by VC money.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
They should concentrate on developing the browser and get out of political activism entirely. Use the rather large amount of money they already have as an investment fund to finance a slimmed-down operation while also soliciting donations from users and some select companies. Ditch the large administrative staff they gained during the Baker years, swap some of them out for developers. They should not try to be a PAC,…
Wouldn't this be a case where the iron law of bureaucracy applies? Meaning that the people who are already there and are invested in their 'mission' would resist any kind of reform of the organization because the primary task of any such organization is protecting itself from outsiders?
Yes, but only because the Mozilla Foundation has the same problem. If it was just the corporation then the foundation could decide to replace it entirely.
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#29More privacy-related about:config settings: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Privacy_Task_Force/firefox_...
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#30I just want to use a robust, secure and decently fast browser that uses a different backend than Chrome to support the open web not ossifying into a single browser spec. I'll pay monthly!
Please just let me pay for this in money and not my privacy :-(