Dan GillmorJul 16, 2024

Disappointing that Mozilla's CEO has chosen Reddit -- a platform that has grossly mistreated the volunteers who make it work -- as the venue to discuss the new anti-privacy tools that are turned on by default in the latest Firefox.

I hate to point to Reddit for that reason.

Mozilla has taken a bad turn, but you can (for now) turn off the latest on-by-default setting: In Settings / Privacy and Security un-check the “Website Advertising Preferences” checkbox.

Show threadWarlock Of WiresJul 16, 2024
@dangillmor is this also a problem in the ESR version??
Show threadMarjorieRJul 16, 2024
@Warlockofwires @dangillmor the next version of firefox-esr will be 128, so you'll have to remember to turn the ad-spyware off when you get the upgrade. It's feasible for the packaged Linux versions (such as Debian) to turn it off by default, but I don't know if they will.
Show threadWarlock Of Wires
@marjolica @dangillmor thank you so much. I'm going to download the installer and then just keep it in a safe place because Frankly Speaking unless there's some zero days I need a patch I'm not going to upgrade this thing for quite some time
Jul 16, 2024 at 8:47pmWeb