For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default • Hacker News Board

Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

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Post by lopis » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 5:41 AM UTC

squidbeak wrote: post #147

lopis wrote: post #84

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This is an attempt to try. You don't win my being an immovable wall going against the biggest corporations. If the W3C manages to create a system that satisfies advertisers while preserving our privacy, that's how you win. There isn't a future where advertising will just disappear. I'm just being pragmatic here, as a user of ad blockers for 15 years.

An immovable wall is exactly what is needed to confront big corporations when they behave abusively (and intrusive profiling is an example of this). 'Pragmatism' here is just acquiescence in creeping surrender. Look what advertising has already done to the web and privacy.

What's already happening is that websites are Si ply dropping support for Firefox.

Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

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Post by jonaustin » Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 8:23 PM UTC

Klonoar wrote: post #101

latexr wrote: post #87

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> It’s clear in retrospect that we should have communicated more on this one What isn’t clear, in retrospect or otherwise, is why companies/apps/services need to keep learning this lesson. The user outcry was utterly predictable from even before the first web article was out. The fact that no one with decision power at Mozilla saw it coming is worrying: either they have zero understanding of people’s concerns for pri…

> The fact that no one with decision power at Mozilla saw it coming is worrying: either they have zero understanding of people’s concerns for privacy or they don’t care. Or the third option: they feel the tradeoff of HN & co's criticism style is not a big deal in the end. Criticism of Mozilla in general is very warranted right now, but the way(s) in which everyone is doing so just feels very out of touch with the act…

or y'know make it _opt in_ instead of making basically hiding it so if you don't know, you're just gonna be part of the experiment

Re: For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

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Post by paddim8 » Sun, Jul 28, 2024, 10:48 AM UTC

Ygg2 wrote: post #362

paddim8 wrote: post #256

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Ladybird is all about the engine. It's progressing faster than servo

In what way? Rendering pages CSS compatibility? I tried servo on Windows and it worked, not so much for Ladybird - granted, I wasn't feeling up to task of compiling it for Windows.

Ladybird doesn't support Windows yet because most developers use Linux or macOS. Ladybird has been progressing faster when it comes to CSS rendering and JavaScript support.