I don’t think this is really a problem. it allows sites to get some data about their advertising, without users giving up anything personal.
The setting can be disabled, but if you do that, you rely on normal cookie policy, so unless you have disabled cookies for the site, in which case many sites don’t work, you will probably be giving up way more data than with the setting on.
If you want to disable it go to “settings” -> “Privacy and security” -> and scroll down until you find: “Website Advertising Preferences” -> Disable the toggle.
I don’t see anything nefarious about this, as far as I can tell, it’s a measure to protect users without breaking functionality of a site.
Shield icon to disable protection for the site if it break
Icon to the right to enable cookie preservation for the site.
This is the essential thing to learn for librewolf. The settings are quite aggressive so you may need to disable the protection. And for websites you want to stay logged in, it’s opt-in.
It’s mostly that Librewolf is a bit like incognito mode by default and it may be confusing for new users.
If you really want to go power mode you can create multiple profiles with different cookie policies. Great to organise yourself and keep cookies where they belong
You are probably judging too quickly.
To quote myself:
I don’t think this is really a problem. it allows sites to get some data about their advertising, without users giving up anything personal.
The setting can be disabled, but if you do that, you rely on normal cookie policy, so unless you have disabled cookies for the site, in which case many sites don’t work, you will probably be giving up way more data than with the setting on.
If you want to disable it go to “settings” -> “Privacy and security” -> and scroll down until you find: “Website Advertising Preferences” -> Disable the toggle.
I don’t see anything nefarious about this, as far as I can tell, it’s a measure to protect users without breaking functionality of a site.
When I want to try something, completely shielded from my main browser, I use Falkon.
It’s a tiny open source browser, based on QtWebEngine, and it works surprisingly well IMO, but it’s not a powerhouse like Firefox or Chrome. https://www.falkon.org/
But as far as I can tell, this is a total non issue:
After reading about the actual feature (more), this seems like an absolutely gigantic non-issue. Like most anti-Mozilla stories end up being.
The whole thing is an experimental feature intended to replace the current privacy nightmare that is cross-site tracking cookies. As-implemented it’s a way for advertisers to figure out things like “How many people who went to our site and purchased this product saw this ad we placed on another site?”, but done in such a way that neither the website with the ad, nor the website with the product, nor Mozilla itself knows what any one specific user was doing.
The only thing I looked for but could not find an answer on one way or the other is if Mozilla is making any sort of profit from this system. I would guess no but actually have no idea.
There are definitely things that can be said about this feature, like “Fuck ad companies, it should be off by default” (my personal take), or “It’s a pointless feature that’s doomed to failure because it’ll never provide ad companies with information as valuable as tracking cookies, so it’ll never succeed in its goal to replace tracking cookies” (also my take). But the feature itself has virtually no privacy consequences whatsoever for anybody.
I’m absolutely convinced there’s a coordinated anti-Firefox astroturfing campaign going on lately.
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This feature, while turned on by default, can be toggled off in the settings menu.
Where is it tho, can’t seem to find it.
Under the Privacy settings, scroll down to the Website Advertising Preferences section. It’s the only setting in that section.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution?as=u&utm_source=inproduct#w_how-can-i-disable-ppa
Someone is running a smear campaign on Firefox, and I don’t know why.
The tech doesn’t track you, it’s very clear on that but the misinformation about it keeps popping up everywhere.
Indeed. Looking up how it works, this is how it should be done. I wish other browsers did this too.
This article is straight up misinformation in that it presents this as an erosion of user privacy. It isn’t.
That said, given how fickle people are online, Mozilla should’ve probably seen this coming and not enabled it on pre-existing Firefox installs.
Who could possibly be motivated to do such a thing??? Hmmmm
If I were to bet, I’d say the campaign is ran by a company that rhymes with Smoogle
I don’t think this is really a problem. it allows sites to get some data about their advertising, without users giving up anything personal.
The setting can be disabled, but if you do that, you rely on normal cookie policy, so unless you have disabled cookies for the site, in which case many sites don’t work, you will probably be giving up way more data than with the setting on.
If you want to disable it go to “settings” -> “Privacy and security” -> and scroll down until you find: “Website Advertising Preferences” -> Disable the toggle.
I don’t see anything nefarious about this, as far as I can tell, it’s a measure to protect users without breaking functionality of a site.
I’ve been meaning to try LibreWolf, here’s my chance.
Here’s two tips:
This is the essential thing to learn for librewolf. The settings are quite aggressive so you may need to disable the protection. And for websites you want to stay logged in, it’s opt-in.
Thanks, for the tips! I’m familiar with UBlock Origin, have been using it for ages. Good to know about the cookies and persistent login.
It’s mostly that Librewolf is a bit like incognito mode by default and it may be confusing for new users.
If you really want to go power mode you can create multiple profiles with different cookie policies. Great to organise yourself and keep cookies where they belong
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And use who?
You are probably judging too quickly.
To quote myself:
When I want to try something, completely shielded from my main browser, I use Falkon.
It’s a tiny open source browser, based on QtWebEngine, and it works surprisingly well IMO, but it’s not a powerhouse like Firefox or Chrome.
https://www.falkon.org/
But as far as I can tell, this is a total non issue:
To anyone reading, don’t do this. The real toggle is here.
After reading about the actual feature (more), this seems like an absolutely gigantic non-issue. Like most anti-Mozilla stories end up being.
The whole thing is an experimental feature intended to replace the current privacy nightmare that is cross-site tracking cookies. As-implemented it’s a way for advertisers to figure out things like “How many people who went to our site and purchased this product saw this ad we placed on another site?”, but done in such a way that neither the website with the ad, nor the website with the product, nor Mozilla itself knows what any one specific user was doing.
The only thing I looked for but could not find an answer on one way or the other is if Mozilla is making any sort of profit from this system. I would guess no but actually have no idea.
There are definitely things that can be said about this feature, like “Fuck ad companies, it should be off by default” (my personal take), or “It’s a pointless feature that’s doomed to failure because it’ll never provide ad companies with information as valuable as tracking cookies, so it’ll never succeed in its goal to replace tracking cookies” (also my take). But the feature itself has virtually no privacy consequences whatsoever for anybody.
I’m absolutely convinced there’s a coordinated anti-Firefox astroturfing campaign going on lately.