Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by hereisdx on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:10AM (#25917445)

Can you please detect I'm using Firefox, and not show the "Download Firefox" banner on top? I'll be able to save a few pixels of vertical space.

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by tangoalpha on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:12AM (#25917461)

Firefox takes privacy so seriously that they fail to detect you are on Firefox, if you are using Firefox!

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by Nextgrid on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:30AM (#25917714)

But not seriously enough to remove Google Analytics from their website.

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by fsflover on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:12PM (#25918388)

Google currently pays for Firefox development. Are you ready to be the money source instead?

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by floatingatoll on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:18AM (#25917549)

I looked because I was curious, and on both desktop and mobile, in all browsers, the site's topnav includes their Mozilla logo, a Download Firefox button, and links to a couple of other Mozilla sites about Internet Health and Donate.

I imagine they could still choose to hide the blue button when you're on Firefox, but that wouldn't save you any vertical space, since the topnav menu of links and logo would remain.

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by noja on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:40AM (#25917867)

It's there always in the same place so you can download Firefox for someone else, or for another device.

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