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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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[–] vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Literally every browser has this option, and it gives users a choice. If you use an ad blocker, it has this option as well and has had it for several years now.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago

Not this option, but generally I agree. Currently I don't think this is bad, and in the longer term we will see if this leaks any identifyable data.

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[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

So.... finally Mozilla has slowly but surely going into the dark side huh...
I'm not surprised anymore, they even had telemetry code inside android apps from waaay back then (although seems for debugging purpose)

In the end I'm not justify all company bc they need money for survive & exist, although i don't like the way they do it

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago

Mozilla has been bad actors since at least 2017, they implemented a piece of malware called Cliqz on a small number of German user's installs that recommends various services based on browser history (aka tracking and advertising); so I'd hardly call this a new development, or Mozilla "just now" falling to the dark side (and that's not even mentioning pocket and DoH to cloudflare, which are still enabled by default).

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[–] shadycomposer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

What’s the behavior before this option was added? Would websites track you or not?

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

They definitely didn't just stop tracking you because this option exists.

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