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aa1@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you

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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you

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aa1@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Attached: 1 image So this, from Firefox, is fucking toxic: https://mstdn.social/@Lokjo/112772496939724214 You might be aware Chrome— a browser made by an ad company— has been trying to claw back the limitations recently placed on ad networks by the death of third-party cookies, and added new features that gather and report data directly to ad networks. You'd know this because Chrome displayed a popup. If you're a Firefox user, what you probably don't know is Firefox added this feature and *has already turned it on without asking you*
  • best_username_ever@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    211·
    1 year ago

    You can’t donate to the Firefox project.

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      1 year ago

      Once in a while you find a person on the internet so misinformed that you have to question whether they’re a shill, a bot or a troll.

      Firefox is the Mozilla foundation. You can most definetely donate to them.

      They currently depend almost entirely on Google’s tainted money. Because donations aren’t enough to cover even a fraction of the costs of developing a free web browser. This is a good experiment to find privacy respecting ways to fund the project without depending on Google’s bad practices.

      • best_username_ever@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        36·
        1 year ago

        Nope. The money does not go to Firefox. Please read your own links before.

        • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          1 year ago

          Where, pray tell, do you think the link says the money goes? I already decided you are a deranged nutjob. But I’ll indulge your madness just out of curiosity on the mind of the deluded.

          • best_username_ever@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            27·
            1 year ago

            https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla or any other site that has been talking about it for years.

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