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Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

#41

Is there a possibility sites just begin blocking Firefox? It's only ~8% of the desktop market share and ~4% across all devices. It doesn't seem inconceivable sites just give up supporting it if they're not getting the ad revenue.

8% is a lot! and Firefox isn't alone, Safari is also on the same path.

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

#42

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I make monthly donations to Mozilla to support their cause. I will stop my donations and migrate to a different browser if they continue down this path.

We get the browser for free and these are just ads, not trackers - they are not stealing our data like Chrome, FB, and the rest. I have nothing against straight ads.

I agree. But I use those links for quick links to site I visit a lot. THis gets in my way

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

#43

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I make monthly donations to Mozilla to support their cause. I will stop my donations and migrate to a different browser if they continue down this path.

We get the browser for free and these are just ads, not trackers - they are not stealing our data like Chrome, FB, and the rest. I have nothing against straight ads.

Unfortunately, "ads" has become a synonym for many people to tracking and privacy and invasive elements, when like most things it encompasses a whole spectrum from minimal and informative (the name of the restaurant on the outside of the building)to manipulative and annoying. People feelings about one particularly negative segment of a spectrum often overflow into other examples and taint their feeling. It's just how people are.

I also have nothing against straight ads. Who knows how Mozilla will implement this though, and whether it will be more annoying than useful. I have some suspicions, but I'll reserve judgement until I've experienced them, since I sometimes have a hard time predicting correctly (as I suspect many people do) because the topic is somewhat emotionally charged.

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

#44

I was wondering : What is the purpose of picture in picture? I don't have any use case for it and was curious about who does.

I use it to make it easy to pass the video only to OBS Studio - the video shows up as a separate window.

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

#45

I was wondering : What is the purpose of picture in picture? I don't have any use case for it and was curious about who does.

I use PiP in Safari, and I find it useful for watching a video in a small window in the corner of my screen without having to keep the page the video was on (YouTube, etc.) open. That way, I can watch the video while reading other tabs, or working in other windows.

It's nice because PiP (at least Safari's/macOS' implementation) keeps the video above all other windows, and it even carries over into other Spaces.

In short: multitasking.

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We get the browser for free and these are just ads, not trackers - they are not stealing our data like Chrome, FB, and the rest. I have nothing against straight ads.

Unfortunately, "ads" has become a synonym for many people to tracking and privacy and invasive elements, when like most things it encompasses a whole spectrum from minimal and informative (the name of the restaurant on the outside of the building)to manipulative and annoying. People feelings about one particularly negative segment of a spectrum often overflow into other examples and taint their feeling. It's just how…

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Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

#48
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And ads in the address bar search results. https://twitter.com/CohanRobinson/status/1364172683118866433 E: saved you a click on my own link. In about:config you can disable this by setting the following to false browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites

I make monthly donations to Mozilla to support their cause. I will stop my donations and migrate to a different browser if they continue down this path.

I don't think donations go towards browser development. Goes more towards general Internet advocacy, social justice campaigns, and salaries of employees of the Foundation who don't work on Firefox.

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

#49

I was wondering : What is the purpose of picture in picture? I don't have any use case for it and was curious about who does.

I've used it to put video from web based video chat on top of a full screen video, while still keeping focus on the main video. I mainly browse with a whole bunch of tabs open instead of multiple windows, so it's useful to pull a video out of a page and be able to navigate away and continue watching instead of dragging to a new window which would take up more space and get lost more easily. I've also used it for checking docs while following video tutorials, or watching recorded classes while looking at assignment pages.

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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Zoom is a different software, so I don't really see a connection to Firefox. Am I missing something?

Zoom calls in Firefox -- a lot of people don't download the software but just run it in browser.

Does it run hotter than in other browsers? It seems likely that it's Zoom's problem.
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