wolfJul 16, 2024

Firefox enables user tracking

https://lemmy.zip/post/19194792

Firefox enables user tracking - Lemmy.zip

… I mean, WTF. Mozilla, you had one job …

Show threadverdigrisJul 16, 2024
This is misinformation. The setting in question is not a “privacy breach setting,” it’s to use a new API which, for sites that use it, sends advertisers anonymized data about related ad clicks instead of the much more privacy-breaching tracking data that they normally collect. This is only a good thing for users, which is why the setting is automatically checked.
Show threadwolf

… first of all, providing a new API to give out information about me is not a good thing in my mind.

Second, this would be the first time in human history, they advertisers would not simply add that APIs information to everything else they aggregate including fingerprinting of your browser.

So, serious question: How is this good for me?

Jul 16, 2024 at 12:18pmWeb
Show threadverdigrisJul 16, 2024

It does not collect any more information about you. It provides far less information than pretty much every ad is already collecting, and that information is anonymized. It does not affect ad blocking solutions.

So, serious question: what are you not understanding here?

Show threadwolfJul 17, 2024

… as already mentioned above:

  • This will be just an additional data point about you sold out - no advertiser will dial back on all the other ways to collect data about you.
  • Mozilla shows that it willingly and silently will sell your data out and they will increase this over time to make money/try to be the man in the middle.
  • It does not matter at all if it affects ad blocking solutions, this is about tracking and profiling. Learn about browser fingerprinting and other techniques.
  • This is built in to your browser, which is crossing a very important line.
    • Am I Unique ?

    Check if your browser has a unique fingerprint, how identifiable you are on the Internet