A word about private attribution in Firefox

Re:A word about private attribution in Firefox by gjsman-1000 on Monday July 15, 2024 @06:20PM (#40971957)

Well, they’ve been trying to fight the advertisers for, oh, 2 decades now; and the advertisers have basically won every fight repeatedly. This is combined with Firefox market share declining to the point that if they do not at least somewhat placate the advertisers, the advertisers could simply block Firefox en-masse and survive. Time for a new strategy.

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Re:A word about private attribution in Firefox by roblabla on Monday July 15, 2024 @06:35PM (#40972063)

> the advertisers could simply block Firefox en-masse and survive

And why would firefox users care about advertisers blocking firefox? Oh noes, ads aren’t showing up in my browser!

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Re:A word about private attribution in Firefox by squigz on Monday July 15, 2024 @06:50PM (#40972152)

I think Firefox users would care if they suddenly couldn't access a large part of the Internet on Firefox.

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Re:A word about private attribution in Firefox by gjsman-1000 on Monday July 15, 2024 @06:55PM (#40972188)

Believe me, the advertisers are probably watching the whole Manifest v3 rollout in Chrome very closely; and weighing the odds that, if they block Firefox, they’ll be able to kill it off completely and have ads for everyone.

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Re:A word about private attribution in Firefox by account42 on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @04:29AM (#40983659)

Why would websites bother with an arms race to block a browser barely anyone uses?

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Re:A word about private attribution in Firefox by ZhongXina on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @04:11AM (#40974503)

Which two decades? They haven't even began trying to fight advertisers. There are a few browsers with aggressive ad blocker shipped out of the box; Firefox is not one of them.

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Re:A word about private attribution in Firefox by account42 on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @04:27AM (#40983654)

> Well, they’ve been trying to fight the advertisers for, oh, 2 decades now; and the advertisers have basically won every fight repeatedly.

Who has been fighting the advertisers? Mozilla? No, they haven't even included a basic ad blocker with FF, only some lackluster "tracking protection" that barely anyone is going to enable (while implementing whatever new privacy leaks Google proposes). If the advertisers have won any fights it is only because Mozilla hasn't even bothered to show up.

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