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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you (mastodon.social)

submitted 4 months ago by azdle@news.idlestate.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 249 points 4 months ago (4 children)

...... I don't know of this is satire or not.

There is now a feature labeled "Privacy-preserving ad measurement" near the bottom of your Firefox Privacy settings. I recommend turning it off, or switching to a more privacy-conscious browser such as Google Chrome.

[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 103 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Definitely satire, the context from earlier:

Firefox is worse than Chrome in their implementation of ad snitching, because Chrome enables it only after user consent.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 53 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I mean, have you met people? They could be completely serious when posting that lol.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 43 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, have you met people?

I mean... I try not to

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

Same same. Also for like the same reason.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

People. What a bunch of bastards

[–] WldFyre@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How is that obviously satire?

[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

[edit: To be clear, I assume the part that OP is not sure if it's satire or not is "or switching to a more privacy-conscious browser such as Google Chrome."] The emphasis in

Firefox is worse than Chrome

is in the original. To me that clearly implies that they are of the opinion that in general Google & Chrome are worse on privacy than Mozilla & Firefox. The comment at the end is just tongue in cheek snark alluding to the fact that in this particular case google did better for privacy in Chrome than Mozilla in Firefox.

or switching to a more privacy-conscious browser such as Google Chrome.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 49 points 4 months ago

The fact that both me and you are questioning whether this is satire or not worries me greatly.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

The updates don't sound like satire. Some of this is crazypantsrants

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 months ago

Absolute clown shoes