“Last month, Mozilla made a quiet change in Firefox that caused some diehard users to revolt…”

  • @[email protected]
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    41 month ago

    Does not “help protecting privacy”, that is marketing. It’s a system for ads that track you in a more privacy-friendly way then other alternatives.

    Peoples are mostly angry at the fact that they just silently slipped this system in without asking for consent.

    • @kuneho
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      31 month ago

      Peoples are mostly angry at the fact that they just silently slipped this system in without asking for consent.

      But why? Does it expose more data? More sensitive data than before?

      What I don’t get, but maybe because of the lack of information I have on the topic is that if it’s better in terms of data privacy than before, or is it better if it’s turned on than off, why is it such a great problem, if it’s turned on by default? In this case, not turning it on would be something that one should be noted. Any technical, real-world reasons why not giving my consent to enable this feature gives reason to get mad, or is this really just about “not having a choice”, regardless the outcome?

      • @[email protected]
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        51 month ago

        What I don’t get, but maybe because of the lack of information I have on the topic

        Exactly. That’s also the issue there. It was opt-out by default AND didn’t seemed to give enough info to the end-user about what it does, and why it would be better to keep it enabled. Most people, complain about the forced default decision without any notice, and without any appropriate info to understand if it was a decent change or not. You should only enable it, IF you understand and ablige to what it does.

        • @kuneho
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          11 month ago

          I understand this, thanks. But still feels way too overreacted. But now, that’s just what I think about this.