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Re:A few simple steps to vastly increase your privacy online by mosselman on Thursday March 21, 2019 @10:48AM (#19452934)
Firefox now has basic ad-blocking built-in using Disconnect's lists, which is very cool.

I use ublock in combination with privacy badger. In ublock I block all third-party requests and enable sites one by one. I had to leave Safari on my laptop with only the basic ad-blocking since my wife can't use my Firefox's ultra hard blocking situation.

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Re:A few simple steps to vastly increase your privacy online by pbhjpbhj on Thursday March 21, 2019 @11:24AM (#19453384)
I searched but couldn't find anything suggesting they're ad-blocking by default -- what they do have, eg https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/01/30/firefox-makes-ad..., is ability to block trackers. But it's only default enabled in "private" mode.

Could you backup your statement?

Mozilla got a huge sum of money from Google last time I checked (a few months ago), so it would be amazing if they were allowed by Google to enable ad-blocking as a default (unless there was whitelisting that included Google).

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Re:A few simple steps to vastly increase your privacy online by mosselman on Saturday March 23, 2019 @03:20PM (#19471905)
The information is right in the article you posted. I never used the word 'default'.
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