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Re:Firefox on the Brink? by toss1 on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @09:49AM (#38531505)
If this is the case, it seems that they need to recode the Enhanced Tracking Protection for GA to ensure that they get flagged as FFox.

Might also be useful to have a plug-in to make a daily 'ping'/check-in from FFox to any govt sites used by their users. E.g., I use USPS and SBA/SBIR sites, but only occasionally or monthly, but if most FFox users who did so got logged more like daily instead of ~fortnightly or ~monthly, it'd improve the numbers. (Obviously, also must be done carefully so as to not get wholesale discounted).

The cascade effect of the US Govt abandoning support would be catastrophic, likely terminal, which would be bad for everyone.

Re:Firefox on the Brink? by worik on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:36PM (#38535065)
> ...it seems that they need to recode the Enhanced Tracking Protection for GA to ensure that they get flagged as FFox.

That would be backwards

The main reason to use FF is the privacy protections

I find it very frustrating they do not get more recognition for the work they do on that front