Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties

Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by rrcaptain on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:27AM (#16289412)

In all seriousness: why should we care what ad companies want? Mozilla makes a browser, not an ad platform. Advertisers may have to adapt, but that's their problem.

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by paulie_a on Friday February 02, 2018 @06:22AM (#16289755)

In my opinion Mozilla should be actively hostile to ad companies, and go out of their way to ruin metrics

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by gregknicholson on Friday February 02, 2018 @06:36AM (#16289803)

I don't think that's a good tactic. Google and other ad companies have plenty of money to spread disinformation against Mozilla, if they wanted to.

If Mozilla's users are saying “yes, this is good; please do more”, Mozilla can use that as a defence against any resistance from advertisers.

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by narag on Friday February 02, 2018 @11:47AM (#16291955)

Then it would be better if Mozilla remains closer to neutral but leaves maximum space to the user for custom configurations, maybe using extensions.

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