Bas Schouten (@[email protected])
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@[email protected] Again, and as Bobby has explained at length here: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_about_private_attribution_in_firefox/ This is making privacy a privilege for the people that work to inform and educate themselves on the topic. People shouldn't need to do that, everyone deserves a more private browser. Privacy features, in Firefox, are not meant to be opt-in. They need to be the default. If you are 'completely anti-ads' (i.e. even if their implementation is private), you probably use an ad blocker. So are unaffected by this.

Just wanted to surface this comment, because not enough people are cognizant of the fact that adblockers do their job and prevent any PPA submissions.

  • Carighan Maconar
    5•5 months ago

    But it’s a privacy feature? 🤷

    I mean sure, it’s easy to read this and go immediate full-on “someone suggested another distroy than arch”-nuclear. But as someone else said, and what is essentially the linked post, this is a feature for those that do not run adblockers.

    If you run an adblocker, this feature does nothing for you. Whether on or off. It could not matter any less. You don’t interact with ads, so there is no ad interaction to track.

    But if you don’t run an adblocker - and let’s be real here, that’s going to be the vast majority of even Firefox users probably - then this is how advertising ought to work, so it’s a privacy-enhancing feature. Yes, right now it doesn’t do much. But were it opt-in, it could not do much. Not now, not ever.