Thom, exceedingly pureJul 16, 2024

In case you're using Firefox on mobile - so myself and like four others - disabling Firefox' new Facebook data collection feature is quite a bit harder than on desktop, but it can be done:

  • Go to chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml
  • Use the search field to find the entry for aboutConfig and enable it
  • Go to about:config
  • Search for dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled and set it to false

    • Done. This only works on Android, because Firefox on iOS is just a Safari skin.

    Show threadedzobJul 16, 2024
    @thomholwerda going to chrome: surprised me
    Show threadjosh g.
    @edzob @thomholwerda same. is android Firefox a chrome reskin?
    Jul 18, 2024 at 4:33pmWeb
    Show threadalex_pkJul 19, 2024
    @joshg @edzob @thomholwerda no :)
    Before chrome was even born, Mozilla called the browser's interface "chrome" to distinguish it from the engine (gecko).
    I think that's where Google took the name when they built their "chrome" around khtml.
    Show threadedzobJul 19, 2024

    @alex_pk @joshg @thomholwerda thanks!
    never knew that. today I learned 😊

    for the archive some links for this piece of history

    https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/overview/gecko.html

    https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome "The name comes from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers."

    Gecko — Firefox Source Docs documentation