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Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default in c/privacy@lemmy.ca
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I actually wanted to help make Firefox a better product. 🤷

Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default in c/privacy@lemmy.world
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

Wish I had seen your comments previously!

Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default in c/firefox@lemmy.world
Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default in c/firefox@lemmy.world
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

I agree - so the question is if anything changed -- Mozilla has said that they are just clarifying their existing usage of data. Hence my read. Yes, this implies that Mozilla was previously deceptive and is being more transparent today, but that is also what they are saying.

If you disagree, I'd be curious to see where we see that Mozilla has explained that the new Privacy Notice is describing new practices by Mozilla rather than a clarification of their existing practice -- basically, why do you believe that.

Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default in c/firefox@lemmy.world
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm a little confused about where we disagree - but it might make it simpler to clarify that I said "shared", not sold. That seems to be exactly what they are saying in the privacy notices from both 2017 and today.

Whether it was sold and what that entailed isn't something we're going to be able to know without Mozilla telling us.

Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default in c/firefox@lemmy.world
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Did you see that the privacy policy was updated to use Technical & Interaction data to "suggest relevant content"?

It's a package deal.

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Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default (www.quippd.com)
 

TL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This data was then shared with advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis.

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Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default (www.quippd.com)
 

TL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This data was then shared with advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis.

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Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default (www.quippd.com)
 

TL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This data was then shared with advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis.

YSK: Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You have to remember that sometimes when that shiny new CSS feature comes out, it is underspecced, with unhandled corner cases -- "just do what Chromium does" is not a standard -- or is it? Having multiple implementations of a spec prove that it is interoperable - without that, you might have a good spec, or you might have a spec that says "whatever Chrome does is what is expected". Not sure that is what we want from new CSS (or any) features.

YSK: Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago

The 2FA thing sounds like it's all on the Dropbox side if you are just entering a code you got from an authenticator app. The Google login issue may be a real issue -- did the Google login specifically work on another browser?

YSK: Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago

There is nothing about MV3 that stops you from improving things.

What about this stuff?

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Uhh, that doesn't seem normal at all. Is this a default config? Any extensions in use?

YSK: Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Probably simpler to just "Forget" the site from the site's context menu in the history sidebar.

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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)
 

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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YSK: Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)
 

Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)
 

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)
 

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)
 

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)
 

We’ve been anticipating it for years, and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.

Now that it is finally happening, many seem to be oddly resigned to the idea that Google is taking away the best and most powerful ad content blocker available on any web browser today, with one article recommending people set up a DNS based content blocker on their network 😒 – instead of more obvious solutions.

I may not have blogged about this but I recently read an article from 1999 about why Gopher lost out to the Web, where Christopher Lee discusses the importance of the then-novel term “mind share” and how it played an important part in dictating why the web won out. In my last post, I touched on the importance of good information to democracies – the same applies to markets (including the browser market) – and it seems to me that we aren’t getting good information about this topic.

This post is me trying to give you that information, to help increase the mind share of an actual alternative. Enjoy!

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Plan Less, Do More: Introducing Appointment By Thunderbird - The Thunderbird Blog (blog.thunderbird.net)
 

Thunderbird has a new project under its wing: Appointment. Learn all about our approach to appointment scheduling, and try it yourself.

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Mozilla Did a Reddit AMA About Their 2024 Firefox Priorities… See What You Missed (www.quippd.com)
 

Mozilla did their biggest Reddit AMA yet on Thursday, June 13, with eight members of the Firefox leadership team. With 400 total comments on the post, they c...

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How Firefox Loses When it Tries to Copy Chrome (www.quippd.com)
 

You might not know it, but Firefox was once widely considered to be an innovative browser. It wasn’t just an alternative to Internet Explorer (and now Chrome). Firefox introduced honest-to-goodness new features that people loved and rely on to this day.

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