Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla

Re:Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla by hutzlibu on Saturday December 10, 2022 @06:33AM (#33931729)

Since one of the last updates of firefox mobile pushed advertisement back on my home screen (without me consenting to it) I was reminded why I do not trust FF anymore.

At least it was not a "study" again, meaning intensive tracking of everything I do, which is enabled by default btw.

So it is nice, that they work on anti tracking features in general. But you have to pay for most of them, which is alright, but not in combination with pushing advertisement and tracking by default from the browser itself.

So to block all the shitty ads who want to track me, I just continue to use UBlock Origin. So as long as it works, I will continue to use FF - but not for this fake privacy orientated branding.

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Re:Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla by hotcoffeebear on Saturday December 10, 2022 @07:34AM (#33932054)

I don’t think not being default privacy-first is a bad thing for Firefox. Also, I don’t see any privacy related advertising on mozilla.org landing page.

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Re:Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla by wildrhythms on Saturday December 10, 2022 @08:17PM (#33938941)

They are referring to the Firefox 'New Tab page' which does indeed show ads by default:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-new-tab-page

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Re:Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla by tristan957 on Saturday December 10, 2022 @07:12PM (#33938492)

You can turn the advertising off if it bothers you.

What in your opinion should Mozilla do to monetize Firefox? When they get money from Google to be the default search engine, people complain. When they add extremely subtle advertising that you can turn off, people complain.

To turn off advertising on Firefox for at least Android, Settings - Homepage - Sponsored Shortcuts.

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Re:Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla by wildrhythms on Saturday December 10, 2022 @08:16PM (#33938928)

I thought it was clear "back on the home screen" was implying that they had turned the ads off, then Mozilla turned the ads back on without the user's consent.

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Re:Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla by StopHammoTime on Saturday December 10, 2022 @08:53PM (#33939194)

There needs to be a link between donations and turning off monetisation features.

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Re:Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla by tristan957 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @01:49PM (#33973802)

The Mozilla Corporation doesn't accept donations. Is it even possible for a US-based corporation to accept a donation?

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Re:Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla by tttttt5ts on Saturday December 10, 2022 @07:42PM (#33938694)

Thanks for reminder. I got a new phone and forgot to opt out of "study"

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