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Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by nebulaserfer »

spullara wrote: post #16
whizzkid wrote: post #4

It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years. 2014 me as a developer had Chrome as number 1 browser for both development and all rest. Firefox once a month just to check cross browser compatibility. And Safari was just installed without me using it. 2019 me uses Safari for everything except development. Excellent power consumption and UX. Firefox for development. And lastly Chrome for all web…

I only use Chrome on Google. Safari for everything else. Best power usage and better protects privacy. No reason to not let Chrome see me use Google...

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Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by flattone »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #69

It appears this would block pretty much all the major analytics tracking cookies (e.g. Google analytics, mixpanel, etc.) based on the linked Disconnect list, https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection . While I realize that's kind of the point, in my mind there is somewhat of a difference between "the site I'm on is tracking me to figure out how I use their site" vs. "any site I visit is essentially aggregated data beca…

That is so well stated.

I think from a pure interested user perspective the bottom line is I don't care what happens to anything as long as I'm not tracked/measured etc. Find another way or just get lucky with the correct mixture of creativity and hiring. My web browsing does not exist for companies to exist.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by jtbayly »

nebulaserfer wrote: post #71
spullara wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only use Chrome on Google. Safari for everything else. Best power usage and better protects privacy. No reason to not let Chrome see me use Google...

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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by roca »

bashinator wrote: post #70
shrikant wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most Google apps only just about "work" on Firefox. They're clearly optimised for Chromium and it shows. I use Firefox for all my browsing needs except for Google apps, for which I keep an install of Vivaldi around. I only really fire up Chrome if some stupid internal workplace app refuses to work on anything else. It truly is the new IE.

For example, I cannot copy and paste text in Google Docs in Firefox.

Using the keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V) works for me on Linux.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by Nursie »

The_rationalist wrote: post #67

Please tell me I'm misunderstanding something! By enabling by default the blocking of those third party scripts: https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection/blocked This Wil have three consequences: Many websites will partially break? Which ones? webmaster will lack many data necessary to understand what users do on their platform, where they missclick, what they don't use etc, thus diminishing the ability of webmasters…

Sorry, but as a web user I never signed up for stalking by site owners, nor did I sign up to be stalked across sites by their advertisers. I certainly didn't sign up to let you co-opt my computer to do this.

You're going to have to live with it. Get some beta testers onboard maybe.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by jeena »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #69

It appears this would block pretty much all the major analytics tracking cookies (e.g. Google analytics, mixpanel, etc.) based on the linked Disconnect list, https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection . While I realize that's kind of the point, in my mind there is somewhat of a difference between "the site I'm on is tracking me to figure out how I use their site" vs. "any site I visit is essentially aggregated data beca…

They could ask me how I use their site, instead of giving the data about every step I do to 3rd parties.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by jeena »

arendtio wrote: post #42

Does anybody have experience setting up and running a custom FF Account/Sync server? https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...

I set it up 2015 https://jeena.net/firefox-sync-15 and it's running on my server ever since mostly without problems. I think it hang one time so I needed to restart it but otherwise great software, even though the documentation on how to install it was kind of non existent back then. But now that also improved a lot in addition that it's now easy to use on Android too.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by creato »

jeena wrote: post #77
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #69

It appears this would block pretty much all the major analytics tracking cookies (e.g. Google analytics, mixpanel, etc.) based on the linked Disconnect list, https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection . While I realize that's kind of the point, in my mind there is somewhat of a difference between "the site I'm on is tracking me to figure out how I use their site" vs. "any site I visit is essentially aggregated data beca…

They could ask me how I use their site, instead of giving the data about every step I do to 3rd parties.

People that respond to such questions surely are a very biased sample of the overall user base.
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