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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you (mastodon.social)

submitted 4 months ago by azdle@news.idlestate.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 36 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Here's the page about it:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution

Read that instead of someones rant about it, which imo seems a bit obtuse.

[–] Junkernaught@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This sounds fine, I've no problem emitting telemetry as long as it is 100% anonymous and can't be traced to individuals

[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well I do have a problem with that. Since we don't see eye to eye, dont you agree then that it should have been opt in instead of a hidden opt out?

[–] Jako301@feddit.de 5 points 4 months ago

Let's be honest, opt in telemetry features will collect so little data they might es well not exist.

Considering that ot is supposed to reduce user tracking by tracking ads directly, it's a net gain for everyone.

[–] Junkernaught@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

I do agree with that :)

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 11 points 4 months ago

Same, although I have lingering paranoia that any data recorded by this might be traced back to me by making inferences when combined with other data; however, unlike the OOP, I will say I don't really know what I'm talking about.

[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did you ironically preserve the utm_source parameter?

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 months ago

No lol, I just didn't notice and also didn't expect it to be there. :|