Mozilla And Firefox We Need To Talk

Recently with the launch of Firefox 128 Mozilla decided to ad a less than popular feature called Privacy Preserving Attribution that is not at all privacy preserving because it doesn't actually stop any of the individual tracking methods it's just more data to be collected.

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[Pyroteknikid]

"Preserving Privacy" and "Working with Facebook" do not belong together.

[n.stephan]

The internet is already barely tolerable with how bloated modern websites are on their own; it's downright unusable without an adblocker,
1. On weaker machines it worsens performance since the vast majority of banner and sidebar ads are animated.
2. Most ads advertise blatant scams, pure garbage or pose a siginificant threat to cybersecurity.
3. The awful ad placement that's commonly employed by websites, any text-based content (news article, recipe, blog, etc) is diluted with ads between every miniscule portion of text to the point that there's no more than 30%-40% of actual content on the screen at any given time.

On a somewhat unrelated note, why do webpages primarily consist of ludicrously sized borders and whitespaces?

[exotericidymnic]

Privacy is not the only issue that people have with ads, most people would continue to use ad blocking software even if there were no privacy concerns.

[eivisch]

firefox really want to shrink their user base

[_jdfx]

"you are a guest on my computer". Well said!

[timx]

How to disable this! Settings -> Privacy and security -> Website Advertising Preferences -> Uncheck "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement"

[amateurprogrammer]

"It is difficult to make a man understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair

[Sollace]

I feel like the only thing that could have saved this is if Mozilla said "...and we will be blocking all ads that do not exclusively use this new system"
Edit: Youtube is not letting me reply to people. Sorry!

[Tobi-cins]

Disappointing to see Mozilla disregarding consent as a core principal. That said, I don't think this feature will really affect most privacy-conscious Firefox users, as we're already all using adblock and won't see any ads for it to attribute in the first place.

[enemixius]

The biggest problem is that it's basically too late. People are sick and tired of everything that's even remotely related to ads and privacy invasion.

If this had been implemented ten years ago, it would have been acceptable. Today, everyone just wants to be left alone.

[jorge]

if Brodie is an Aussie in Australia, how come we never see gigantic spiders walking around his room? 🤨

[arubaga]

Mozilla runs an advertising company inside itself now.

[AnalyticMinded]

Mozilla: Hey, advertisers. Here's some aggregated data we've collected. Will you buy it?
Advertisers: Uh, yeah, sure.
Mozilla: Will you stop violating people's privacy now?
Advertisers: Pfff, no.

[DSDeadman]

If they were up front with this and allowed the opt-in/opt-out option during setup, it would not be so much of a problem. Hiding this behind in the settings is a problem.

[ai-spacedestructor]

ha, i wasnt told to ignore the change in audio quality :P

[SheWhoExists]

Thanks for the heads up. Sure enough, it was silently enabled in my settings during the last update. They were even kind enough to hide it at the bottom of the settings page

[marcusmeaney]

mozilla had a hostile CEO takeover a while back to push telemetry into their browser for their ad company

[YouTubdotCub]

LibreWolf, Waterfox, SeaMonkey, IceCat, etc continue to be the safer way to use Gecko-based browsers than Firefox lol

[TheChadXperience]

They just couldn't stay out of the ad business. My fear is that after they've got the legislation and numbers, they'll use the fact that it's "privacy preserving" to justify making it mandatory, and really difficult to disable.

[RedMartianSkylight]

Exactly. Some people say "Mozilla is being the lesser evil, " and all I can think is why don't we choose good instead of a "lesser" evil that will still commit acts of evil?