"No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128. Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release
  • Lodra@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    So I read a bit of Mozilla’s documentation about this feature. It sounds like they’re trying to replace the current practices with something safer. Honestly, my first thought is that this is a good thing for two reasons.

    • It’s an attempt to replace cross site tracking methods, which are terrible
    • Those of us that fight against ads, tracking, etc. can simple use typical methods to block the api. Methods that were already using (I think)

    If both of these are true, then it could be a net positive for the world. Please tell me if I’m wrong!

    • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Sometimes I just get tired of having to fight against software to have it behave in a semi-decent way. The same way you technically “can” run a decent windows installation after removing/disabling/blocking a ton of stuff, I don’t really want a browser that can be trusted after you had to tinker with dozens of settings to just get back to basic non-intrusive behavior.

      I said this in another thread on the same topic somewhere else, but considering user tracking as an inevitability that we have to accept means we’ve already lost on that front.