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Honestly its getting out of hand. I have everything blocked I can think of [1], and even browsing in private mode, I still sometimes get the "recommended for you" on YouTube. Stop invading my privacy. [1] https://cup.github.io/rosso/youtube
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This sounds like a risk for using Google Analytics to me. If your analytics suite isn’t representative of your site’s traffic and users, maybe you should look for a more ethical platform/solution?
Are there more ethical platforms that don't get blocked by default for Firefox users?
This is great! On another note, I'm wondering when I can remove uBlock Origin?
I use this because I value my privacy, but choose not to use uBlock Origin because I understand websites I use need revenue. It is about finding your own personal balance.
This is great! On another note, I'm wondering when I can remove uBlock Origin?
This is great! On another note, I'm wondering when I can remove uBlock Origin?
Do they include also the google analytics that are built into firefox addons page?
Can you elaborate what page you mean? I see nothing in the source of https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=blah or about:addons
https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785#issue...
must be a joke since this link gets eaten by privacy badger. Full of trackers. edit: originally referred to blog.mozilla.com
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Or just actively punishing Firefox because blocking tracking is also blocking ads, which is their revenue model. Why spend money optimizing for a browser that doesn't generate revenue? If Firefox becomes the bastion of privacy sensitive people it will become more and more like Tor users, all tainted with the same labels. I mean it's already the case that recaptcha will more likely trigger on Firefox than Chrome, aski…
As far as I remember, when websites were doing window pop-ups and Google toolbar removed them, they didn't block the toolbar users. So, the risk is low... unless Firefox does something stupid like full ad-blocking. But if something like this happens, I will be happy to build/use an extension for the other browsers that makes such websites invisible in all major social networks.
I see one risk for Firefox: if they block all trackers, e.g. Google Analytics, then it would appear to people viewing browser statistics in Google Analytics that no-one is using Firefox, and thus the developers will be told they don't need to test anything on Firefox.
Or just actively punishing Firefox because blocking tracking is also blocking ads, which is their revenue model. Why spend money optimizing for a browser that doesn't generate revenue? If Firefox becomes the bastion of privacy sensitive people it will become more and more like Tor users, all tainted with the same labels. I mean it's already the case that recaptcha will more likely trigger on Firefox than Chrome, aski…
The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked. I used to be able to use Firefox Focus (which has tracking protection built-in) to pay most of my bills. This was convenient because I would just open up the one site in FFF, pay the bill, and then close it, with all browsing history automatically deleted. In the past month about 3 of…
> The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked. That's fine by me. It's an up-front indication that I don't want to use that service. In the case of bill pay, I would just change my user agent string.