Vangelis KostalasJul 16, 2024
James House-Lantto (He/Him)

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_about_private_attribution_in_firefox/

CTO of Mozilla tries to clear up some things about the new Private attribution.

For what it's worth, this doesn't read like PR-bullshit damage control. There are points of contention, for sure, but I do believe they are genuinely trying to improve things.

You can't go from shitshow to utopia without some steps in between, and some of those steps may not be ideal, but we may have to deal with them, in order to get where we want.

#privacy #firefox

Jul 16, 2024 at 5:46pmWeb
Show threadLuna Ruby Artemis 💛🤍💜🖤Jul 17, 2024
@Theeo123 "we consider modal consent dialogs to be a user-hostile distraction from better defaults, and do not believe such an experience would have been an improvement here"
Fuck off.
Show threadJames House-Lantto (He/Him)Jul 18, 2024

@arina

Yeah, that's fair.
I'm not trying to defend it completely, I hear you, BUT I'm trying to find some silver lining.

Advertising on the web is here to stay, it's not going away anytime soon.

I would love a world with no advertising, but how do we get there from here? What's the viable alternative that will work right now, not in some distant future after everyone's hearts & minds have evolved.

We can't even get most people to agree that dying kids, should get saved, without a profit

Show threadLuna Ruby Artemis 💛🤍💜🖤Jul 19, 2024
@Theeo123 The issue to me isn't ads, it's the tracking. The alternative, therefore, would be ads without tracking.
To be fair, after reading a bit more about this tech, it *is* interesting and, at least, is more thorough than just "we'll remove names and IP addresses from the data".
But I still think that:
1. Mozilla should've communicated this way better from the start;
2. Mozilla should've made this opt-in instead of opt-out;
Show threadJames House-Lantto (He/Him)Jul 19, 2024

@arina

I 100% agree with you on both those points.
Mozilla does so so so much more than the browser, I really want to try and have faith, but they definitely screwed the pooch initially on this one.