Firefox 69 Ratchets Up Tracking Protection, Switching it On by Default (cnet.com) 31
Mozilla has switched on Firefox's tracking protection feature for everyone on Windows and Android, dialing up its effort to protect privacy from website publishers and advertisers that would like to keep tabs on your online behavior. From a report: Mozilla enabled tracking protection for new Firefox users in June, but now it's on for everyone, the nonprofit said Tuesday. Tracking protection is all the rage among browser makers, including Apple's Safari, Brave Software's Brave and Microsoft's new Chromium-based Edge. Even Google's Chrome, long the laggard among major browsers, is starting to tackle the problem. It's a thorny issue for websites and advertisers that seek to improve advertising revenue by targeting ads based on their assessment of your interests. "Currently over 20% of Firefox users have Enhanced Tracking Protection on. With today's release, we expect to provide protection for 100% of ours users by default," Mozilla said in a blog post Tuesday.
Heh... (Score:3)
Heh, 69...
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Almost there... (Score:2)
Firefox has not only become relevant again, it has become the best browser again. Now if they would build in the functionality of uBlock Origin and remove all floating elements like sticky videos and dickbars...
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Now if they would build in the functionality of uBlock Origin...
No thanks. Building extra crap into the browser is certainly not what I what, even if it's good crap. I'm still annoyed with them over Pocket. uBlock Origin is fine as an add-on, and its there for anyone who wants to use it (which I do). Just don't neuter its functionality, like Chrome is doing.
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I think Firefox is stuck in a no win scenario. As always the #2 or #3 Player. People are looking for it to either be the Small and Light browser, or the one with superior features. Trying to go in either direction will hurt its usage numbers.
Light core, featureful extensions (Score:3)
The answer used to be a rich extension API to let the user choose to add "superior features" as needed to a "small and light" core. WebExtensions made this somewhat less practical. There's still no way, for example, to let a WebExtension unbind a keyboard shortcut.
SeaMonkey (Score:2)
I haven't checked since Quantum, but SeaMonkey, the "bloated browser," from the start was a smaller download, started way faster and took way less memory.
Up until the removal of plug-ins, they even used the exact same version of Gecko. Though SeaMonkey would usually have the experimental HTML/CSS/Javascript features turned on by default. SeaMonkey is trying to upgrade to newer Gecko, but they are having problems.
It just
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Now getting rid of those popup videos that drop into view when you scroll the main video off the page... that would be awesome.
But they don't need to put uBlock origin in, its OK as a plugin.
JavaScript Switcher by meetDeveloper (Score:3)
Now getting rid of those popup videos that drop into view when you scroll the main video off the page
To clear this up, try the extension JavaScript Switcher by meetDeveloper [mozilla.org]. It offers a simple on-off switch for client-side script on each domain. There also exist other, more nuanced script blocking extensions.
Other three (Score:2, Troll)
"Currently over 20% of Firefox users have Enhanced Tracking Protection on"
So they switched it on for the other three users who haven't switched yet?
Good that I built it form source last night (Score:2)
Re:Good that I built it form source last night (Score:4, Insightful)
I have to wonder about the mentality of someone who thinks that an hour-long video of them compiling a software package is useful or interesting.
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Years ago I was on a project where just the link took 25 minutes, don't even ask about compile time if you touched the wrong header file. I got pretty good at fixing bug A, kick off a build, look into bug B while it's linking. Had a couple aliases to switch between workspaces, all it took was enough disk space to hold 2 complete source trees (not a trivial thing in the 90s).
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Sometimes a real time video, is useful in setting someones expectations. I watch a lot of Wood Working videos on You Tube, they are steps they fast forward, or they just skip. Such as waiting for Glue to Dry (which can take 24 hours), or repeating the same cut a dozen times.
When they edit the video like that, you rarely loose useful information, however sometimes you feel inadequate because it seems like you are doing such steps much longer then they do. They could say they spend an hour chisseling out
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I have to wonder about the mentality of someone who thinks that an hour-long video of them compiling a software package is useful or interesting.
Yeah, but you miss the gem at 0:23.73 in the build when the message "Reticulating Splines" appears.
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I have to wonder about the mentality of someone who thinks that an hour-long video of them compiling a software package is useful or interesting.
Big Brother: Nerd Version, brought to you by Microsoft Visual Studio.
Sounds phony as a three dollar bill (Score:1)
How can they erase the info from the site that collects your shit? You're not hiding anything. They do "Ctrl+H", and it pulls up all your history on the site, just like on your own browser.
Firefox is designed by kids (Score:3, Interesting)
'Firefox is not your default browser
Its incredibly hard to take them seriously when they act so unprofessionally. Every time i open it it asks me to update. It wont take 'no' for an answer.
"As of about firefox 63, it will no longer be possible to prevent firefox from checking for updates as the preference (option) to do so is being removed. "
Yeah, fuck Firefox, they lost the plot a long time ago.
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You fucked up posting AC, too, Msdose.
Get Out of my Settings! (Score:2)
Who the heck do you think you are Mozilla? You need to have an anti-Mozilla protection mode that allows people to protect themselves from *YOU* going in and diddle-farting about with their settings without prior permission. There is absolutely nothing in this world that is worse that a manufacturer of a product that goes in and changes settings to something different from how the user has set them. IT IS NOT YOUR COMPUTER.
I think you should be sued out of existence for your malicious HACKING about with o
Good stuff (Score:2)
Keep it up Firefox!