Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta

Re:Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in F... by jimmaswell on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @04:05PM (#19618431)

Cryptomining seems like a fine alternative to ads to me. Or just the general idea of making the client do some computation work for you.

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Re:Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in F... by lrem on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @04:43PM (#19618773)

I like my battery to last a whole day, pretty please. Whenever on mobile and AMP is not an option, I'll try Firefox Focus. If that doesn't work, I'm as likely to move on as to revert to letting the site's affiliates run Javascript on my phone.

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Re:Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in F... by russh on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:20PM (#19619559)

I too do not like spending a $1 so somebody can earn $0.0002.

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Re:Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in F... by jimmaswell on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @05:20PM (#19619040)

I think you'd optimally be able to choose between ads, mining, or paying some kind of token, maybe linked to your (Firefox/Google/etc) account so it could be mined on your desktop and used on mobile, or the tokens are just bought.

Anecdotally my phone is about 4 years old maybe and the battery still does fine browsing with JS on in Firefox mobile. That is with ublock though.

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